Bascou
The verdict
“Bascou” is uncommon French (frequency #82,709 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,709
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bascou · Bascou · French
Bascou · rank #82,709 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,709
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bastin
Nearest frequency peer: bastin (+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 « Bascou »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- balisées
balisées
17,296 corpus weight
- bardage
bardage
17,294 corpus weight
- Bascou
Bascou
17,292 corpus weight
- bastin
bastin
17,291 corpus weight
- batteuses
batteuses
17,290 corpus weight
- baya
baya
17,289 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Bascou » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bascou |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #82,709 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Bascou » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Bascou is uncommon French at frequency #82,709 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Bascou in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Bascou, spelled B-A-S-C-O-U.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Bascou appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Même des grands noms de l’athlé français, comme Dimitri Bascou (médaillé de bronze aux JO de Rio en 2016 sur 110 m haies) ou Alexandra Tavernier (4ᵉ aux JO de Tokyo en 2021 au lancer du marteau) ont dû se résoudre à en passer par là, dans le but de préparer au mieux leurs Jeux olympiques.
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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