bastion
\bas.tjɔ̃\
The verdict
“bastion” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,611. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,611
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ouvrage de fortification qui fait partie de l’enceinte du corps d’une place : il présente en saillie deux faces et deux flancs. Il est relié à l’enceinte par ces derniers.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bastion · bastion · French
bastion · rank #14,611 · 10 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,611
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH banquet
Nearest frequency peer: banquet (-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 « bastion »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- autrichienne
autrichienne
85,393 corpus weight
- badge
badge
85,392 corpus weight
- banquet
banquet
85,391 corpus weight
- bastion
bastion
85,390 corpus weight
- bazar
bazar
85,389 corpus weight
- berges
berges
85,388 corpus weight
What this shows « bastion » 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 | bastion |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bas.tjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #14,611 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bastion »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around bastion (IPA \bas.tjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,611 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for bastion, with forms such as "abstion", "basiton", and "basstion". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "bâton", "boston", "baston", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 bastion, spelled B-A-S-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Ouvrage de fortification qui fait partie de l’enceinte du corps d’une place : il présente en saillie deux faces et deux flancs. Il est relié à l’enceinte par ces derniers.
- 2Élément géographique avancé.
- 3Tout ce qui semble inexpugnable.
- 4Machine du réseau qui fournit un point d’entrée ou de sortie unique vers Internet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bastion appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans le procès-verbal dressé par Machiavel, […] nous lisons encore ces passages, touchant l’établissement de bastions ronds en avant des anciens fronts fortifiés : « […] L’avis du capitaine fut qu’il serait utile d’élever sur ce point ou une casemate ou un bastion rond, qui battit les deux lianes […]
La ville avait la réputation d’être imprenable ; son château s’élevait à l’est et la ceinture de murailles qui entourait la cité venait s’y attacher ; des portes, des bastions, des fossés formaient un respectable appareil de défense.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abstion
- basiton
- basstion
- bastino
- bastionn
- bastoin
- basttion
- batsion
- bbastion
- bsation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bastion - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).