basketball

\bas.kɛt.bol\

/\bas.kɛt.bol\/ noun

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The verdict

“basketball” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,660. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#18,660
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de basket-ball.

Corpus desk

Index FR-basketball · basketball · French

basketball · rank #18,660 · 14 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #18,660
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH bambou

Nearest frequency peer: bambou (-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 « basketball »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « basketball » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

basketball vs baseball
80% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for basketball
PropertyValue
Headwordbasketball
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bas.kɛt.bol\
Letters10
Frequency rank#18,660
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « basketball »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).basketballse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « bambou » (#18,659), « basques » (#18,661), « baigne » (#18,658). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « basketball » est au #18,660. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around basketball (IPA \bas.kɛt.bol\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,660 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Variante orthographique de basket-ball.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for basketball, with forms such as "absketball", "baksetball", and "basektball". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "baseball", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is basketball, spelled B-A-S-K-E-T-B-A-L-L.

Definition

  1. 1
    Variante orthographique de basket-ball.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • absketball
  • baksetball
  • basektball
  • baskebtall
  • basketabll
  • basketbal
  • basketbball
  • basketblal
  • baskettball
  • baskketball
  • baskteball
  • bassketball
  • bbasketball
  • bsaketball

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of basketball - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

absketball2baksetball2basektball2baskebtall2basketabll2basketbal1basketbball1basketblal2
Edit distance from "basketball"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "basketball"?
"basketball" is spelled B-A-S-K-E-T-B-A-L-L. The IPA pronunciation is \bas.kɛt.bol\.
What does "basketball" mean?
As a noun, "basketball" means: Variante orthographique de basket-ball.
What words are commonly confused with "basketball"?
"basketball" is commonly confused with "baseball". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "basketball"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "basketball" is \bas.kɛt.bol\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "basketball" come from?
"basketball" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "basketball", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list