bassiner
\ba.si.ne\
The verdict
“bassiner” is an uncommon French word, ranked #83,630 in French word frequency and used as a verb.
- #83,630
- frequency rank, French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Chauffer un lit avec un ustensile contenant des braises : la bassinoire ou le moine.
| 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) |
Where “bassiner” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bassiner is 8 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ba.si.ne\. Corpus data places it at rank #83,630 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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.
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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Using “bassiner”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-A-S-S-I-N-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ba.si.ne\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.