bassa
\ba.sa\
The verdict
“bassa” is uncommon French (frequency #62,810 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,810
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancien synonyme de pacha.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bassa · bassa · French
bassa · rank #62,810 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,810
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH beigne
Nearest frequency peer: beigne (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « bassa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bannies
bannies
37,194 corpus weight
- baryum
baryum
37,193 corpus weight
- bassa
bassa
37,191 corpus weight
- beigne
beigne
37,190 corpus weight
- bid
bid
37,189 corpus weight
- bifurquer
bifurquer
37,188 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bassa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bassa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.sa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #62,810 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bassa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bassa is uncommon French at frequency #62,810 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ba.sa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ancien synonyme de pacha.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bassa, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is bassa, spelled B-A-S-S-A.
Definition
- 1Ancien synonyme de pacha.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bassa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un marchand grec en certaine contrée Faisait trafic ; un bassa l’appuyait ; De quoi le Grec en bassa le payait, Non en marchand ; tant c’est chère denrée Qu’un protecteur.
Synonyms
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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