basal
\ba.zal\
The verdict
“basal” is uncommon French (frequency #64,954 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,954
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui concerne la base, le bas ou le minimum.
Corpus desk
Index FR-basal · basal · French
basal · rank #64,954 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,954
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH batch
Nearest frequency peer: batch (+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 « basal »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- balte
balte
35,051 corpus weight
- barbituriqu…
barbituriques
35,050 corpus weight
- bardes
bardes
35,049 corpus weight
- basal
basal
35,047 corpus weight
- batch
batch
35,046 corpus weight
- BBS
BBS
35,044 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « basal » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | basal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ba.zal\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #64,954 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « basal » en français
Rare enough to double-check
basal is uncommon French at frequency #64,954 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ba.zal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
basal has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is basal, spelled B-A-S-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui concerne la base, le bas ou le minimum.
- 2Qui indique une valeur de référence.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how basal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La capacité d’enracinement in vitro de microboutures du porte-greffe de pommier M9 (Jork 9) a été notablement augmentée en fendant la partie basale (2 mm).
Les horizons résultent de la subdivision d’une couverture pédologique en volumes considérés comme suffisamment homogènes. Il est clair que cette homogénéité est relative et qu’elle correspond à une certaine échelle d’investigation. Elle autorise explicitement une hétérogénéité dans le détail : agrégats distincts, différents constituants formant la masse b…
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); 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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