bas
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#343
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
bas is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui a peu de hauteur ou d’élévation. Pronounced \ba\. It ranks #343 in French word frequency. Often confused with by and be.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ba\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #343 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bas is 3 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ba\. Corpus data places it at rank #343 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for bas in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "be", "BD", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is bas, spelled B-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui a peu de hauteur ou d’élévation.
- 2Qui est situé à un niveau inférieur.
- 3Qualifie un lieu dont l’altitude est inférieure que celui d’où descendent les rivières qui les arrosent.
- 4Baissé, par opposition à levé, redressé.
- 5Grave.
- 6Qui est inférieur, moindre ou subalterne.
- 7Qui est vil, méprisable, contraire à la noblesse.
- 8Qui est trivial ou populaire, en parlant du registre de langage.
- 9Qualifie le ciel lorsqu’il est chargé de nuages moins élevés qu’à l’ordinaire, signe que le temps menace de pluie.
- 10Qualifie les classes par où commencent les écoliers, les classes élémentaires.
- 11Qualifiait, dans les places, les casemates et flancs de bastions qui servaient à défendre le fossé et la courtine.
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Frequency rank: #343 in French
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