basket

/\bas.kɛt\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,211

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

19

similar word pairs

basket is aFrenchnoun. It means: Basket-ball (abréviation courante). Pronounced \bas.kɛt\. It ranks #4,211 in French word frequency. Often confused with basse and basses.

Key facts for basket
PropertyValue
Headwordbasket
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bas.kɛt\
Letters6
Frequency rank#4,211
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs19
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of basket in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for basket is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bas.kɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,211 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Basket-ball (abréviation courante).".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for basket, with forms such as "absket", "bakset", and "basekt". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "basse", "basses", "bucket", and more, 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 basket, spelled B-A-S-K-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Basket-ball (abréviation courante).

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: absket,bakset,basekt,baskett,baskket,baskte,bassket,bbasket,bsaket

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for basket

Misspelling Variants of "basket"

absket6bakset6basekt6baskett7baskket7baskte6bassket7bbasket7
Misspelling Variants of "basket"

Frequency rank: #4,211 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "basket"?
"basket" is spelled B-A-S-K-E-T. The IPA pronunciation is \bas.kɛt\.
What does "basket" mean?
As a noun, "basket" means: Basket-ball (abréviation courante).
What words are commonly confused with "basket"?
"basket" is commonly confused with "basse", "basses", "bucket". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "basket"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "basket" is \bas.kɛt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "basket" come from?
"basket" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.