bashing
\ba.ʃiŋ\
The verdict
“bashing” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,990. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,990
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dénigrement insistant d'une personne, d'une communauté ou d'une institution.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bashing · bashing · French
bashing · rank #33,990 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,990
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH avoisinant
Nearest frequency peer: avoisinant (-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 « bashing »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- atteler
atteler
66,014 corpus weight
- atténue
atténue
66,013 corpus weight
- avoisinant
avoisinant
66,012 corpus weight
- bashing
bashing
66,011 corpus weight
- Beaucaire
Beaucaire
66,009 corpus weight
- berceuse
berceuse
66,008 corpus weight
What this shows « bashing » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bashing |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.ʃiŋ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #33,990 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bashing »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around bashing (IPA \ba.ʃiŋ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,990 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Dénigrement insistant d'une personne, d'une communauté ou d'une institution.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for bashing, with forms such as "abshing", "bahsing", and "bashhing". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "bassin", "bassins", "bassine", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is bashing, spelled B-A-S-H-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Dénigrement insistant d'une personne, d'une communauté ou d'une institution.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bashing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le bashing ? Un jeu à la mode où l'on s'acharne sur une personnalité.
Quelles sont les racines de ce mépris teinté de dégoût qui ressort parfois de la conversation de certains Américains lorsqu’ils évoquent notre si beau et si merveilleux pays ? Bref: le french bashing, ça vient d’où ?
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abshing
- bahsing
- bashhing
- bashign
- bashingg
- bashinng
- bashnig
- basihng
- basshing
- bbashing
- bsahing
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bashing - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).