Bazille

name

The verdict

“Bazille” is uncommon French (frequency #86,456 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#86,456
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.

Corpus desk

Index FR-bazille · Bazille · French

Bazille · rank #86,456 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #86,456
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH Batiscan

Nearest frequency peer: Batiscan (-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 « Bazille »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Bazille » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Bazille
PropertyValue
HeadwordBazille
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters7
Frequency rank#86,456
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Bazille » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Bazilletombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « Batiscan » (#86,455), « Bassorah » (#86,454), « bedon » (#86,459). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « Bazille » est au #86,456. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Bazille is uncommon French at frequency #86,456 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".

Bazille has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Bazille, spelled B-A-Z-I-L-L-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Bazille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Frédéric Bazille.
  2. Gaston Bazille.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Bazille"?
"Bazille" is spelled B-A-Z-I-L-L-E.
What does "Bazille" mean?
As a proper noun, "Bazille" means: Nom de famille.
What language does "Bazille" come from?
"Bazille" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Bazille", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list