bass
\bas\
The verdict
“bass” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #21,865) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #21,865
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Maître, patron, orthographe fautive de baas.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bass · bass · French
bass · rank #21,865 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,865
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH beauf
Nearest frequency peer: beauf (+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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « bass »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- B1
B1
78,139 corpus weight
- balayage
balayage
78,138 corpus weight
- bass
bass
78,136 corpus weight
- beauf
beauf
78,135 corpus weight
- billetterie
billetterie
78,134 corpus weight
- binôme
binôme
78,133 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « bass » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | bass |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bas\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #21,865 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « bass »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bass is neighbouring look-alikes ("BS", "bus", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \bas\. Frequency #21,865 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Gloss: "Maître, patron, orthographe fautive de baas.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for bass, with forms such as "abss", "bbass", and "bsas". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "BS", "bus", "bat", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is bass, spelled B-A-S-S.
Definition
- 1Maître, patron, orthographe fautive de baas.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bass appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
– Bass ! Bass !
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abss
- bbass
- bsas
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bass - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bass", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).