bassin

/\ba.sɛ̃\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,382

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

bassin is aFrenchnoun. It means: Grande cavité osseuse qui forme la base du tronc et sert de point d’attache aux membres inférieurs. Pronounced \ba.sɛ̃\. It ranks #3,382 in French word frequency. Often confused with bazin and besoin.

Key facts for bassin
PropertyValue
Headwordbassin
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ba.sɛ̃\
Letters6
Frequency rank#3,382
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of bassin in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for bassin is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ba.sɛ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,382 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 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for bassin, with forms such as "abssin", "basin", and "basisn". 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, "bazin", "besoin", "Bastia", 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 bassin, spelled B-A-S-S-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Grande cavité osseuse qui forme la base du tronc et sert de point d’attache aux membres inférieurs.
  2. 2
    Récipient ménager ressemblant à un grand plat creux et de forme ronde ou ovale.
  3. 3
    Plat où l’on reçoit les offrandes à la messe.
  4. 4
    Vase à l’usage des malades pour recueillir les selles.
  5. 5
    Pièce d’eau, ordinairement bordée de pierre ou de marbre.
  6. 6
    Zone océanique profonde.
  7. 7
    Zone géographique en dépression.
  8. 8
    Région socio-économique, groupement de ressources.
  9. 9
    Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter)
  10. 10
    Lieu où les bâtiments jettent l’ancre. Grande enceinte pratiquée dans un port à marée, dans un havre, et fermée par des portes ou des vannes, pour que l’eau ne s’en écoule pas et maintienne toujours à flot un certain nombre de bâtiments.
  11. 11
    Piscine.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: abssin,basin,basisn,bassinn,bassni,bbassin,bsasin

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bassin

Misspelling Variants of "bassin"

abssin6basin5basisn6bassinn7bassni6bbassin7bsasin6
Misspelling Variants of "bassin"

Frequency rank: #3,382 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bassin"?
"bassin" is spelled B-A-S-S-I-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ba.sɛ̃\.
What does "bassin" mean?
As a noun, "bassin" means: Grande cavité osseuse qui forme la base du tronc et sert de point d’attache aux membres inférieurs.
What words are commonly confused with "bassin"?
"bassin" is commonly confused with "bazin", "besoin", "Bastia". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "bassin"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bassin" is \ba.sɛ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "bassin" come from?
"bassin" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.