basculent
\bas.kyl\
The verdict
“basculent” is uncommon French (frequency #58,444 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,444
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe basculer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-basculent · basculent · French
basculent · rank #58,444 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,444
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH baronnies
Nearest frequency peer: baronnies (-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 « basculent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- baissière
baissière
41,562 corpus weight
- baleiniers
baleiniers
41,561 corpus weight
- bandante
bandante
41,560 corpus weight
- baronnies
baronnies
41,558 corpus weight
- basculent
basculent
41,557 corpus weight
- battery
battery
41,556 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « basculent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | basculent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bas.kyl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #58,444 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « basculent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
basculent is uncommon French at frequency #58,444 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bas.kyl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for basculent, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is basculent, spelled B-A-S-C-U-L-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe basculer.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent du verbe basculer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how basculent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Les gens ne basculent pas tout à coup dans les comportements antisociaux. Ils vont plutôt aider leurs voisins, venir au secours d’étrangers », note Tricia Wachtendorf, chercheuse à l’université du Delaware, dans une séquence du documentaire Vers un monde altruiste de Sylvie Gilman et Thierry de Lestrade (2015) citée dans Télérama.
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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