base de lancement
\baz.də.lɑ̃.kə.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“base de lancement” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Lieu où sont réunis un ou plusieurs ensembles de lancement, des moyens logistiques et des installations permettant le suivi des premières phases de vol d’un véhicule aérospatial et la mise en œuvre...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | base de lancement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \baz.də.lɑ̃.kə.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “base de lancement” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for base de lancement is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \baz.də.lɑ̃.kə.mɑ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Lieu où sont réunis un ou plusieurs ensembles de lancement, des moyens logistiques et des installations permettant le suivi des premières phases de vol d’un véhicule aérospatial et la mise en œuvre...".
No misspelling variants are generated for base de lancement in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is base de lancement, spelled B-A-S-E- -D-E- -L-A-N-C-E-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Lieu où sont réunis un ou plusieurs ensembles de lancement, des moyens logistiques et des installations permettant le suivi des premières phases de vol d’un véhicule aérospatial et la mise en œuvre des mesures de sauvegarde.
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- The one correct French spelling is B-A-S-E- -D-E- -L-A-N-C-E-M-E-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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