basculer

\bas.ky.le\

/\bas.ky.le\/ verb

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The verdict

“basculer” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,109. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#12,109
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire un mouvement de bascule.

Corpus desk

Index FR-basculer · basculer · French

basculer · rank #12,109 · 12 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #12,109
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH autorisées

Nearest frequency peer: autorisées (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « basculer »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « basculer » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

basculer vs bousculer
78% similar
basculer vs bascule
88% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for basculer
PropertyValue
Headwordbasculer
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\bas.ky.le\
Letters8
Frequency rank#12,109
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « basculer »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).basculerse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « autorisées » (#12,108), « Beyrouth » (#12,110), « bienveillance » (#12,111). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « basculer » est au #12,109. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around basculer (IPA \bas.ky.le\), averb. Corpus frequency is #12,109 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for basculer, with forms such as "absculer", "bacsuler", and "bascculer". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "bousculer", "bascule", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is basculer, spelled B-A-S-C-U-L-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Faire un mouvement de bascule.
  2. 2
    Faire faire un mouvement de bascule à quelque chose.
  3. 3
    Passer d’une source, d’un système, d’un logiciel, d’une application à un(e) autre.
  4. 4
    Passer d'une situation bien déterminée à une autre.
  5. 5
    Changer complètement vers une situation de déséquilibre, voire de catastrophe.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how basculer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Instinctivement Éric esquive le coup, bascule en arrière en entraînant l’homme dans sa chute et l’envoie bouler à quelques mètres.
  2. Le canot bascule sur le berthon, se met à glisser vers l'avant écrasant une trentaine de personnes et blessant grièvement à la jambe Isaac Lehmann.

Synonyms

bousculerculbuter

This word in other languages

shift(English)wippen(Deutsch)balançar(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • absculer
  • bacsuler
  • bascculer
  • bascluer
  • bascuelr
  • basculerr
  • basculler
  • basculre
  • bassculer
  • basucler
  • bbasculer
  • bsaculer

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of basculer - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

absculer2bacsuler2bascculer1bascluer2bascuelr2basculerr1basculler1basculre2
Edit distance from "basculer"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "basculer"?
"basculer" is spelled B-A-S-C-U-L-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \bas.ky.le\.
What does "basculer" mean?
As a verb, "basculer" means: Faire un mouvement de bascule.
What words are commonly confused with "basculer"?
"basculer" is commonly confused with "bousculer", "bascule". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "basculer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "basculer" is \bas.ky.le\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "basculer" come from?
"basculer" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "basculer", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Beyrouth#12,110attirent#12,106attaquée#12,105arrêtera#12,103

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

vertical12 variantsdéménage12 variantsstimuler12 variantsexploits12 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list