basculant
\bas.ky.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“basculant” is uncommon French (frequency #68,847 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,847
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui bascule.
Corpus desk
Index FR-basculant · basculant · French
basculant · rank #68,847 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,847
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bartok
Nearest frequency peer: Bartok (-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 « basculant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- barmaid
barmaid
31,158 corpus weight
- baro
baro
31,157 corpus weight
- Barrel
Barrel
31,156 corpus weight
- Bartok
Bartok
31,155 corpus weight
- basculant
basculant
31,154 corpus weight
- becquet
becquet
31,151 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « basculant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | basculant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bas.ky.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #68,847 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « basculant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
basculant is uncommon French at frequency #68,847 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \bas.ky.lɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for basculant, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is basculant, spelled B-A-S-C-U-L-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui bascule.
- 2Que l’on peut faire basculer.
- 3Qualifie une ouverture que l’on peut ouvrir par rotation autour d’un axe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how basculant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Avec les autres candidates, elle a appris à opérer six genres de machineries lourdes comme les niveleuses, les bulldozers, les excavatrices, les chargeuses, les rétrocaveuses et les camions articulés à benne basculante.
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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