basse
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,162
in French word usage
Misspellings
3
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
basse is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ligne mélodique qui contient les notes les plus graves. Pronounced \bɑs\. It ranks #2,162 in French word frequency. Often confused with boss and bats.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | basse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɑs\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,162 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for basse is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bɑs\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,162 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 3 documented wrong-spelling variants for basse, with forms such as "absse", "bbasse", and "bsase". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "boss", "bats", "bave", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is basse, spelled B-A-S-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ligne mélodique qui contient les notes les plus graves.
- 2Note la plus grave d'un accord.
- 3Voix propre à chanter la partie de basse.
- 4Personne qui a une voix de basse.
- 5Violoncelle, nommé basse, parce qu’il joue le plus souvent la basse dans les symphonies et les quatuors ou trios. Ou autre instrument, comme un cuivre, qui sert à exécuter la basse dans les morceaux à plusieurs parties.
- 6Personne qui joue de cet instrument.
- 7Dans un orchestre de jazz, ellipse fréquemment utilisée pour nommer la contrebasse.
- 8Abréviation de guitare basse.
- 9Grosses cordes de certains instruments.
- 10Banc de rochers ou de corail dangereux pour la navigation car situé proche de la surface de la mer sans pour autant affleurer.
- 11Vallée, surtout perpendiculaire à une vallée principale.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: absse,bbasse,bsase
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for basse
Misspelling Variants of "basse"
Frequency rank: #2,162 in French
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