détroit de Bass
\de.tʁwa də bas\
The verdict
“détroit de Bass” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a proper noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Détroit qui sépare la Tasmanie de l’Australie (État de Victoria) et relie la Grande Baie australienne à la mer de Tasman.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | détroit de Bass |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \de.tʁwa də bas\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “détroit de Bass” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for détroit de Bass is 15 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.tʁwa də bas\. 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: "Détroit qui sépare la Tasmanie de l’Australie (État de Victoria) et relie la Grande Baie australienne à la mer de Tasman.".
No misspelling variants are generated for détroit de Bass 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 détroit de Bass, spelled D-É-T-R-O-I-T- -D-E- -B-A-S-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Détroit qui sépare la Tasmanie de l’Australie (État de Victoria) et relie la Grande Baie australienne à la mer de Tasman.
This word in other languages
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Using “détroit de Bass”
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- The one correct French spelling is D-É-T-R-O-I-T- -D-E- -B-A-S-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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