bastides
\bas.tid\
The verdict
“bastides” is uncommon French (frequency #65,727 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,727
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de bastide.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bastides · bastides · French
bastides · rank #65,727 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,727
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bastons
Nearest frequency peer: bastons (+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 « bastides »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Barbezieux
Barbezieux
34,278 corpus weight
- barcelonnet…
barcelonnette
34,277 corpus weight
- barette
barette
34,276 corpus weight
- bastides
bastides
34,274 corpus weight
- bastons
bastons
34,273 corpus weight
- batiste
batiste
34,271 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bastides » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bastides |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bas.tid\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #65,727 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bastides » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bastides is uncommon French at frequency #65,727 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bas.tid\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de bastide.".
bastides has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 bastides, spelled B-A-S-T-I-D-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de bastide.
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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