bassons
\ba.sɔ̃\
The verdict
“bassons” is uncommon French (frequency #96,654 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,654
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de basson.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bassons · bassons · French
bassons · rank #96,654 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,654
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH barolo
Nearest frequency peer: barolo (-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 « bassons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- barbaque
barbaque
3,350 corpus weight
- bariolés
bariolés
3,349 corpus weight
- barolo
barolo
3,348 corpus weight
- bassons
bassons
3,347 corpus weight
- Bathily
Bathily
3,346 corpus weight
- Batou
Batou
3,345 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bassons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bassons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.sɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #96,654 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bassons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bassons is uncommon French at frequency #96,654 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ba.sɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de basson.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for bassons, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is bassons, spelled B-A-S-S-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de basson.
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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