bassiner
\ba.si.ne\
The verdict
“bassiner” is uncommon French (frequency #83,630 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,630
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chauffer un lit avec un ustensile contenant des braises : la bassinoire ou le moine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bassiner · bassiner · French
bassiner · rank #83,630 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,630
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH basileus
Nearest frequency peer: basileus (-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 « bassiner »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- barrera
barrera
16,374 corpus weight
- Barthel
Barthel
16,373 corpus weight
- basileus
basileus
16,372 corpus weight
- bassiner
bassiner
16,371 corpus weight
- bassinet
bassinet
16,370 corpus weight
- baves
baves
16,369 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bassiner » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bassiner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ba.si.ne\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #83,630 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bassiner » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bassiner is uncommon French at frequency #83,630 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ba.si.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bassiner, 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.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is bassiner, spelled B-A-S-S-I-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Chauffer un lit avec un ustensile contenant des braises : la bassinoire ou le moine.
- 2Humecter, fomenter en mouillant avec un liquide tiède ou chaud.
- 3Arroser légèrement.
- 4Humecter pour assouplir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bassiner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Adèle allait bassiner le lit de cette petite fille, mais en cachette depuis le soir où, surprise à donner cette douceur à la jeune héritière de ses maîtres, elle fut grondée par Sylvie.
Même tout courbaturé de bastonnades, il la plaignait de s’être mise en tel péril à cause de lui, ne se doutant pas qu’elle ignorait l’histoire et reposait à cette heure fort tranquillement entre ses draps de toile de Hollande, bassinés au bois de santal et à la cannelle.
This word in other languages
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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