basané
\ba.za.ne\
The verdict
“basané” is uncommon French (frequency #61,329 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,329
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a la peau mate, le teint brun. #8B6C42, de couleur brune, noirâtre ou bistrée ou qui a été hâlé, bruni par le soleil, le grand air.
Corpus desk
Index FR-basane · basané · French
basané · rank #61,329 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,329
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Barrère
Nearest frequency peer: Barrère (-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 « basané »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- baigneur
baigneur
38,675 corpus weight
- barn
barn
38,674 corpus weight
- Barrère
Barrère
38,673 corpus weight
- basané
basané
38,672 corpus weight
- Basquiat
Basquiat
38,671 corpus weight
- battrait
battrait
38,670 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « basané » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | basané |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ba.za.ne\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #61,329 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « basané » en français
Rare enough to double-check
basané is uncommon French at frequency #61,329 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ba.za.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for basané, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is basané, spelled B-A-S-A-N-É.
Definition
- 1Qui a la peau mate, le teint brun. #8B6C42, de couleur brune, noirâtre ou bistrée ou qui a été hâlé, bruni par le soleil, le grand air.
- 2Pantalon basané, pantalon d’équitation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how basané appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les convives étaient servis par des esclaves basanés parlant un langage inconnu, et qui m’ont tout l’air de vrais démons ; la livrée du moindre d’entre eux eût pu servir d’habit de gala à un empereur.
Une bonté, une bienveillance inaltérable était répandue sur ses traits basanés, et se devinait dans les lignes nombreuses que la vie avait burinées sur ce mâle visage.
Synonyms
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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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