bastons
\bas.tɔ̃\
The verdict
“bastons” is uncommon French (frequency #65,728 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,728
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de baston.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bastons · bastons · French
bastons · rank #65,728 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,728
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bastides
Nearest frequency peer: bastides (-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 « bastons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- beans
beans
34,270 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bastons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bastons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bas.tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #65,728 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bastons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bastons is uncommon French at frequency #65,728 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bas.tɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de baston.".
bastons has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is bastons, spelled B-A-S-T-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de baston.
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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