bien dans ses baskets
\bjɛ̃ dɑ̃ sɛ bas.kɛt\
The verdict
“bien dans ses baskets” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adverb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Confiant, maitre de soi, à l’aise.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bien dans ses baskets |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \bjɛ̃ dɑ̃ sɛ bas.kɛt\ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bien dans ses baskets” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bien dans ses baskets is 21 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bjɛ̃ dɑ̃ sɛ bas.kɛt\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Confiant, maitre de soi, à l’aise.".
No misspelling variants are generated for bien dans ses baskets in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is bien dans ses baskets, spelled B-I-E-N- -D-A-N-S- -S-E-S- -B-A-S-K-E-T-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Confiant, maitre de soi, à l’aise.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “bien dans ses baskets”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-I-E-N- -D-A-N-S- -S-E-S- -B-A-S-K-E-T-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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