basa
\ba.sa\
The verdict
“basa” is uncommon French (frequency #75,433 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,433
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langue parlée au Nigéria.
Corpus desk
Index FR-basa · basa · French
basa · rank #75,433 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,433
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bassora
Nearest frequency peer: Bassora (+1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « basa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bails
bails
24,572 corpus weight
- baltringue
baltringue
24,571 corpus weight
- barka
barka
24,570 corpus weight
- basa
basa
24,568 corpus weight
- Bassora
Bassora
24,567 corpus weight
- baudis
baudis
24,566 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « basa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | basa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.sa\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #75,433 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « basa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
basa is uncommon French at frequency #75,433 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ba.sa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Langue parlée au Nigéria.".
Zero misspellings are on record for basa in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is basa, spelled B-A-S-A.
Definition
- 1Langue parlée au Nigéria.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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