cor de basset
\kɔʁ də ba.sɛ\
The verdict
“cor de basset” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Instrument à vent de la famille des bois à anche simple, malgré son nom, ce n'est pas un cor mais une clarinette très usitée à la fin du XVIIIᵉ siècle.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cor de basset |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔʁ də ba.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cor de basset” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cor de basset is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔʁ də ba.sɛ\. 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: "Instrument à vent de la famille des bois à anche simple, malgré son nom, ce n'est pas un cor mais une clarinette très usitée à la fin du XVIIIᵉ siècle.".
No misspelling variants are generated for cor de basset 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 cor de basset, spelled C-O-R- -D-E- -B-A-S-S-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Instrument à vent de la famille des bois à anche simple, malgré son nom, ce n'est pas un cor mais une clarinette très usitée à la fin du XVIIIᵉ siècle.
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- The one correct French spelling is C-O-R- -D-E- -B-A-S-S-E-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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