Bastiais
\bas.tjɛ\
The verdict
“Bastiais” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,891. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,891
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Habitant de Bastia, commune française située dans le département de la Haute-Corse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bastiais · Bastiais · French
Bastiais · rank #34,891 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,891
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH beast
Nearest frequency peer: beast (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Bastiais »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bannie
bannie
65,113 corpus weight
- Barker
Barker
65,112 corpus weight
- Bastiais
Bastiais
65,110 corpus weight
- beast
beast
65,109 corpus weight
- bilatéral
bilatéral
65,108 corpus weight
- Biotechnolo…
Biotechnologie
65,107 corpus weight
What this shows « Bastiais » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bastiais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bas.tjɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #34,891 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Bastiais »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Bastiais (IPA \bas.tjɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,891 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Habitant de Bastia, commune française située dans le département de la Haute-Corse.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Bastiais, with forms such as "abstiais", "basitais", and "basstiais". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "bastian", "bastions", "Bastia", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Bastiais, spelled B-A-S-T-I-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Habitant de Bastia, commune française située dans le département de la Haute-Corse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Bastiais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ma parole, quand il s’agit de parler de nous, vous êtes presque d’aussi mauvaise foi que les Bastiais !
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abstiais
- basitais
- basstiais
- bastaiis
- bastiaiss
- bastiasi
- bastiias
- basttiais
- batsiais
- bbastiais
- bsatiais
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Bastiais - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).