basso
\ˈbas.so\
The verdict
“basso” is uncommon French (frequency #60,571 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,571
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Basse,
Corpus desk
Index FR-basso · basso · French
basso · rank #60,571 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,571
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bassement
Nearest frequency peer: bassement (-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 « basso »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bartolomeo
Bartolomeo
39,432 corpus weight
- bassement
bassement
39,431 corpus weight
- basso
basso
39,430 corpus weight
- beagle
beagle
39,429 corpus weight
- bedaine
bedaine
39,427 corpus weight
- belot
belot
39,426 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « basso » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | basso |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈbas.so\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #60,571 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « basso » en français
Rare enough to double-check
basso is uncommon French at frequency #60,571 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈbas.so\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
basso has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is basso, spelled B-A-S-S-O.
Definition
- 1Basse,
- 2Bas.
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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