bassem
\ˈbasm̩\
The verdict
“bassem” is uncommon French (frequency #73,752 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,752
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Datif masculin singulier de la déclinaison forte de bass.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bassem · bassem · French
bassem · rank #73,752 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,752
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH barone
Nearest frequency peer: barone (-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 « bassem »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- barder
barder
26,252 corpus weight
- barone
barone
26,250 corpus weight
- bassem
bassem
26,249 corpus weight
- battrons
battrons
26,248 corpus weight
- Baudot
Baudot
26,247 corpus weight
- Baur
Baur
26,246 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bassem » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bassem |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈbasm̩\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #73,752 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bassem » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bassem is uncommon French at frequency #73,752 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈbasm̩\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bassem, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is bassem, spelled B-A-S-S-E-M.
Definition
- 1Datif masculin singulier de la déclinaison forte de bass.
- 2Datif neutre singulier de la déclinaison forte de bass.
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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