basque
\bask\
The verdict
“basque” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,503. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,503
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif au Pays basque ou aux Basques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-basque · basque · French
basque · rank #8,503 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,503
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Barry
Nearest frequency peer: Barry (-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 « basque »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- attachée
attachée
91,501 corpus weight
- bang
bang
91,500 corpus weight
- Barry
Barry
91,499 corpus weight
- basque
basque
91,498 corpus weight
- Bastia
Bastia
91,497 corpus weight
- bidon
bidon
91,496 corpus weight
What this shows « basque » 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 | basque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bask\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #8,503 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « basque »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around basque (IPA \bask\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #8,503 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for basque, with forms such as "absque", "baqsue", and "basqeu". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "basse", "bloque", "battue", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is basque, spelled B-A-S-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif au Pays basque ou aux Basques.
- 2Relatif à la langue basque.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how basque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des plantes américaines ont fait le voyage à travers l’Atlantique […] et sont venues s’installer sur la côte basque : une Graminée Stenotaphrum s’y est même développée fort abondamment et est un élément essentiel de la végétation des environs de Bayonne et de Biarritz.
Un verbe basque comme hil (tuer/mourir) peut prendre en théorie 2.854 formes différentes, même si pas mal d'entre elles sont si monstrueuses (et honteuses de l'être) qu'elles ne s'aventurent jamais hors des grammaires, leur seul milieu naturel : ainsi hil ziezazkiguketenan, « ils/elles pouvaient nous les avoir tué(e)s » (forme verbale réservée à une conve…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- absque
- baqsue
- basqeu
- basqque
- bassque
- basuqe
- bbasque
- bsaque
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of basque - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).