Bassi
\ba.si\
The verdict
“Bassi” is uncommon French (frequency #97,691 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,691
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville de la province de Zondoma de la région du Nord au Burkina Faso.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bassi · Bassi · French
Bassi · rank #97,691 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,691
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bastonnade
Nearest frequency peer: bastonnade (+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 « Bassi »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Barma
Barma
2,314 corpus weight
- Bassi
Bassi
2,310 corpus weight
- bastonnade
bastonnade
2,309 corpus weight
- bax
bax
2,308 corpus weight
- bazoches
bazoches
2,307 corpus weight
- bbl
bbl
2,306 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Bassi » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bassi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ba.si\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #97,691 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Bassi » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Bassi is uncommon French at frequency #97,691 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ba.si\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Bassi, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Bassi, spelled B-A-S-S-I.
Definition
- 1Ville de la province de Zondoma de la région du Nord au Burkina Faso.
- 2Département autour de cette ville.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).