bascules
\bas.kyl\
The verdict
“bascules” is uncommon French (frequency #78,166 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,166
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe basculer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bascules · bascules · French
bascules · rank #78,166 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,166
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH baromètres
Nearest frequency peer: baromètres (-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 « bascules »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Baloutchist…
Baloutchistan
21,838 corpus weight
- bantu
bantu
21,837 corpus weight
- baromètres
baromètres
21,836 corpus weight
- bascules
bascules
21,835 corpus weight
- battantes
battantes
21,834 corpus weight
- bayes
bayes
21,833 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bascules » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bascules |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bas.kyl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #78,166 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bascules » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bascules is uncommon French at frequency #78,166 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 bascules, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is bascules, spelled B-A-S-C-U-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe basculer.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe 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.
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