bas de gamme

/\ba də ɡam\/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Language

French

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bas de gamme is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ce qu'il y a de pire dans le genre, généralement le moins cher. Pronounced \ba də ɡam\.

Key facts for bas de gamme
PropertyValue
Headwordbas de gamme
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ba də ɡam\
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

bas de gamme is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for bas de gamme is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ba də ɡam\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Ce qu'il y a de pire dans le genre, généralement le moins cher.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for bas de gamme in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 de gamme, spelled B-A-S- -D-E- -G-A-M-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ce qu'il y a de pire dans le genre, généralement le moins cher.

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How do you spell "bas de gamme"?
"bas de gamme" is spelled B-A-S- -D-E- -G-A-M-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ba də ɡam\.
What does "bas de gamme" mean?
As a noun, "bas de gamme" means: Ce qu'il y a de pire dans le genre, généralement le moins cher.
How do you pronounce "bas de gamme"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bas de gamme" is \ba də ɡam\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "bas de gamme" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.