bastos
\bas.tos\
The verdict
“bastos” is uncommon French (frequency #51,300 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,300
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cigarette.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bastos · bastos · French
bastos · rank #51,300 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,300
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH barrique
Nearest frequency peer: barrique (-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 « bastos »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- BAPE
BAPE
48,704 corpus weight
- barbarin
barbarin
48,703 corpus weight
- barrique
barrique
48,702 corpus weight
- bastos
bastos
48,701 corpus weight
- Bau
Bau
48,700 corpus weight
- Baudin
Baudin
48,699 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bastos » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bastos |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bas.tos\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #51,300 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bastos » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bastos is uncommon French at frequency #51,300 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bas.tos\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
bastos has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is bastos, spelled B-A-S-T-O-S.
Definition
- 1Cigarette.
- 2Cartouche, balle, projectile d’arme à feu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bastos appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’offre des bastos ; le père refuse : — C’est des cigarettes pour enfants de Marie, ça, mon lieutenant.
Celui-là, c’était Paul Doumer (…). Il s’était pris quelques bastos d’un louf nommé Gorgulov.
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); 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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