basket-ball
\bas.kɛt.bol\
The verdict
“basket-ball” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sport collectif de balle, qui se joue à la main, dont le but est de marquer plus de points que l’équipe adverse en marquant des paniers, c’est-à-dire en faisant passer le ballon à travers un anneau...
Corpus desk
Index FR-basket-ball · basket-ball · French
basket-ball · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | basket-ball |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bas.kɛt.bol\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « basket-ball » en français
Rare enough to double-check
basket-ball is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \bas.kɛt.bol\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sport collectif de balle, qui se joue à la main, dont le but est de marquer plus de points que l’équipe adverse en marquant des paniers, c’est-à-dire en faisant passer le ballon à travers un anneau...".
basket-ball doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is basket-ball, spelled B-A-S-K-E-T---B-A-L-L.
Definition
- 1Sport collectif de balle, qui se joue à la main, dont le but est de marquer plus de points que l’équipe adverse en marquant des paniers, c’est-à-dire en faisant passer le ballon à travers un anneau placé à plusieurs mètres du sol.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how basket-ball appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un match de basket-ball.
Synonyms
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.