basilique
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,916
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
basilique is aFrenchnoun. It means: Édifice public couvert, généralement de forme rectangulaire, divisé en plusieurs nefs par des colonnades et terminé par une abside, qui était affecté à divers usages : justice, commerce, etc. Pronounced \ba.zi.lik\. Often confused with basique and basilic.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | basilique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.zi.lik\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #11,916 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for basilique is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ba.zi.lik\. Corpus data places it at rank #11,916 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for basilique, with forms such as "absilique", "baislique", and "basiilque". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "basique", "basilic", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 basilique, spelled B-A-S-I-L-I-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Édifice public couvert, généralement de forme rectangulaire, divisé en plusieurs nefs par des colonnades et terminé par une abside, qui était affecté à divers usages : justice, commerce, etc.
- 2Église chrétienne bâtie sur le plan de la basilique romaine, à plusieurs vaisseaux de forme allongée, le vaisseau central étant éclairé de fenêtres percées dans la partie haute de la nef.
- 3Lieu de culte de la religion chrétienne, qui a reçu du pape le droit d’être appelée ainsi car il s'y est passé un événement particulier (miracle, lieu de pèlerinage…), ou parce qu'elle abrite le corps d’un saint ou une relique insigne, ou encore à titre purement honorifique.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: absilique,baislique,basiilque,basiliqeu,basiliqque,basiliuqe,basillique,basilqiue,basliique,bassilique,bbasilique,bsailique
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for basilique
Misspelling Variants of "basilique"
Frequency rank: #11,916 in French
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