bas-côté
\bɑ.ko.te\
The verdict
“bas-côté” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom donné à chacune des nefs latérales dont les voûtes sont moins élevées que la nef principale dans une église.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bas-cote · bas-côté · French
bas-côté · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bas-côté |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɑ.ko.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
bas-côté is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɑ.ko.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bas-côté, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is bas-côté, spelled B-A-S---C-Ô-T-É.
Definition
- 1Nom donné à chacune des nefs latérales dont les voûtes sont moins élevées que la nef principale dans une église.
- 2Bande herbeuse ou piste caillouteuse, le long d’une route.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bas-côté appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Je t’en supplie, mon maître, prenons, au moins, prenons un bas-côté de la route. — Pourquoi ? demanda Ouroz. — Les Pachtous suivent toujours le chemin de faîte, dit Zéré. Ils croient que, à ne pas le faire, ils attirent la mauvaise chance.
Une BMW était renversée sur le bas-côté.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.