Bassompierre
The verdict
“Bassompierre” is uncommon French (frequency #89,432 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,432
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bassompierre · Bassompierre · French
Bassompierre · rank #89,432 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,432
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH barro
Nearest frequency peer: barro (-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 « Bassompierre »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- baring
baring
10,572 corpus weight
- Barjols
Barjols
10,571 corpus weight
- barro
barro
10,570 corpus weight
- Bassompierre
Bassompierre
10,569 corpus weight
- Batgirl
Batgirl
10,568 corpus weight
- bavardes
bavardes
10,566 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Bassompierre » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bassompierre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #89,432 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Bassompierre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Bassompierre is uncommon French at frequency #89,432 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Bassompierre, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Bassompierre, spelled B-A-S-S-O-M-P-I-E-R-R-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Bassompierre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Onze œuvres de Michel Bassompierre seront exposées.
Il aura lieu à 20 heures place Bassompierre et sera animé par un barde.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).