bastingage
\bas.tɛ̃.ɡaʒ\
The verdict
“bastingage” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Parapet qu’on formait autour du pont supérieur d’un navire, avec les hamacs de l’équipage, pour se protéger de la mousqueterie et de la petite mitraille de l’ennemi.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bastingage · bastingage · French
bastingage · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bastingage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bas.tɛ̃.ɡaʒ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bastingage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bastingage is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \bas.tɛ̃.ɡaʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
bastingage doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is bastingage, spelled B-A-S-T-I-N-G-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Parapet qu’on formait autour du pont supérieur d’un navire, avec les hamacs de l’équipage, pour se protéger de la mousqueterie et de la petite mitraille de l’ennemi.
- 2Aujourd’hui, garde-corps, parapet autour du pont supérieur d’un navire.
- 3Caisson cloisonné où l’on place les hamacs de l’équipage pendant le jour. On l’emploie surtout au pluriel pour désigner l’ensemble de ces caissons.
- 4Muraille d’un navire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bastingage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un homme […] était appuyé sur le bastingage et paraissait insensible au spectacle qui s’offrait aux regards des passagers groupés sur le tillac.
Abritez-vous derrière le bastingage de bâbord!
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.