baseline
\ˈbeɪs.ˌlaɪn\
The verdict
“baseline” is uncommon French (frequency #94,513 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,513
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ligne de base, point de référence.
Corpus desk
Index FR-baseline · baseline · French
baseline · rank #94,513 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,513
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH basmati
Nearest frequency peer: basmati (+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 « baseline »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- barbaries
barbaries
5,491 corpus weight
- bardeau
bardeau
5,490 corpus weight
- baseline
baseline
5,488 corpus weight
- basmati
basmati
5,487 corpus weight
- baste
baste
5,486 corpus weight
- batifoler
batifoler
5,485 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « baseline » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baseline |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈbeɪs.ˌlaɪn\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #94,513 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « baseline » en français
Rare enough to double-check
baseline is uncommon French at frequency #94,513 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈbeɪs.ˌlaɪn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
baseline doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 baseline, spelled B-A-S-E-L-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Ligne de base, point de référence.
- 2Signature.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how baseline appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A SQL plan baseline name was specified that did not exist.
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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