Bastien
\bas.tjɛ̃\
The verdict
“Bastien” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,305. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,305
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bastien · Bastien · French
Bastien · rank #16,305 · 10 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,305
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH balayer
Nearest frequency peer: balayer (-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 « Bastien »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- atlantic
atlantic
83,699 corpus weight
- auditeur
auditeur
83,698 corpus weight
- balayer
balayer
83,697 corpus weight
- Bastien
Bastien
83,696 corpus weight
- Baudelaire
Baudelaire
83,695 corpus weight
- Bernadette
Bernadette
83,694 corpus weight
What this shows « Bastien » 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 | Bastien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bas.tjɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #16,305 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Bastien »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Bastien (IPA \bas.tjɛ̃\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #16,305 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Bastien, with forms such as "abstien", "basiten", and "basstien". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "bâtie", "bâties", "baston", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Bastien, spelled B-A-S-T-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abstien
- basiten
- basstien
- bastein
- bastienn
- bastine
- basttien
- batsien
- bbastien
- bsatien
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Bastien - 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 "Bastien", 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).