bastos
French, noun/bas.tos/
bastos is spelled B-A-S-T-O-S (6 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 51,352nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bastos is a French feminine noun meaning “bullet; projectile of a firearm” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Cigarette”.
What does bastos mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineslangbullet; projectile of a firearm
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Cigarette. 2. Cartouche, balle, projectile d’arme à feu.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How do you pronounce bastos?
- /bas.tos/
- \bas.tos\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bastos
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bastos in French?
bastos appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).