basses
\bɑs\
The verdict
“basses” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,588. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,588
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bancs de sable, ou rochers cachés sous l'eau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-basses · basses · French
basses · rank #6,588 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,588
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH aviation
Nearest frequency peer: aviation (-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 « basses »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- assises
assises
93,416 corpus weight
- avancées
avancées
93,415 corpus weight
- aviation
aviation
93,414 corpus weight
- basses
basses
93,413 corpus weight
- battent
battent
93,412 corpus weight
- bottes
bottes
93,411 corpus weight
What this shows « basses » 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 | basses |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɑs\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #6,588 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « basses »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around basses (IPA \bɑs\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,588 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for basses, with forms such as "absses", "bassess", and "bassse". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bosse", "bises", "besse", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is basses, spelled B-A-S-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Bancs de sable, ou rochers cachés sous l'eau.
- 2Grosses cordes de certains instruments.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how basses appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’entrée de ce port est dangereuse, parce qu’il y a des basses à droit & à gauche.
D’ailleurs, le Vulcan ne devait pas tarder à être signalé sur les basses du canal Saint-Georges.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- absses
- bassess
- bassse
- bbasses
- bsases
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of basses - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "basses", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (5 here; floor ≥5).