bastide
\bas.tid\
The verdict
“bastide” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,873. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,873
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Élément de fortification.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bastide · bastide · French
bastide · rank #24,873 · 10 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,873
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH baser
Nearest frequency peer: baser (-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 « bastide »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- baissée
baissée
75,131 corpus weight
- ballets
ballets
75,130 corpus weight
- baser
baser
75,129 corpus weight
- bastide
bastide
75,128 corpus weight
- bastions
bastions
75,127 corpus weight
- bayard
bayard
75,126 corpus weight
What this shows « bastide » 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 | bastide |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bas.tid\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #24,873 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bastide »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around bastide (IPA \bas.tid\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,873 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for bastide, with forms such as "abstide", "basitde", and "basstide". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "bâtie", "bastion", "Bastien", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 bastide, spelled B-A-S-T-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1Élément de fortification.
- 2Maison de campagne, généralement isolée.
- 3Villes nouvelles fondées par centaines au Moyen-Âge, dans le sud-ouest de la France.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bastide appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La proximité de l’océan faisait partie des nombreux attraits de la bastide car on pouvait atteindre les plages du Cap-de-l’Horny ou de Contis d’un coup de vélo.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abstide
- basitde
- basstide
- bastdie
- bastidde
- bastied
- basttide
- batside
- bbastide
- bsatide
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bastide - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bastide", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).