bassin
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bassin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.sɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,382 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Grande cavité osseuse qui forme la base du tronc et sert de point d’attache aux membres inférieurs.
- 2Récipient ménager ressemblant à un grand plat creux et de forme ronde ou ovale.
- 3Plat où l’on reçoit les offrandes à la messe.
- 4Vase à l’usage des malades pour recueillir les selles.
- 5Pièce d’eau, ordinairement bordée de pierre ou de marbre.
- 6Zone océanique profonde.
- 7Zone géographique en dépression.
- 8Région socio-économique, groupement de ressources.
- 9Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter)
- 10Lieu 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.
- 11Piscine.
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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"
Frequency rank: #3,382 in French
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