bast
The verdict
“bast” is uncommon French (frequency #70,416 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,416
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - En Iran, espace sanctuarisé servant de lieu de refuge.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bast · bast · French
bast · rank #70,416 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,416
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH barjo
Nearest frequency peer: barjo (-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 « bast »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- barbiers
barbiers
29,588 corpus weight
- barda
barda
29,587 corpus weight
- barjo
barjo
29,586 corpus weight
- bast
bast
29,585 corpus weight
- Bataves
Bataves
29,584 corpus weight
- battirent
battirent
29,583 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bast » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bast |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #70,416 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bast » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bast is uncommon French at frequency #70,416 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "En Iran, espace sanctuarisé servant de lieu de refuge.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for bast in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is bast, spelled B-A-S-T.
Definition
- 1En Iran, espace sanctuarisé servant de lieu de refuge.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bast appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aucun désordre, peu de bruit, on prenait refuge, on prenait bast, comme disent les Persans, autrement dit on s’adonnait à une résistance strictement passive à l’abri d’un sanctuaire. Des sanctuaires, il y en avait plusieurs dans la région de Téhéran : le mausolée de Shah-Abdol-Azim, les écuries royales et, le plus petit bast de tous, le canon sur roues de…
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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