Pays basque
\pe.i bask\
The verdict
“Pays basque” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pays des Basques qui s’étend de part et d'autre des Pyrénées occidentales, réparti entre la France et l’Espagne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pays-basque · Pays basque · French
Pays basque · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Pays basque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \pe.i bask\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
Pays basque is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \pe.i bask\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Pays basque, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Pays basque, spelled P-A-Y-S- -B-A-S-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Pays des Basques qui s’étend de part et d'autre des Pyrénées occidentales, réparti entre la France et l’Espagne.
- 2Région autonome d’Espagne dont la capitale est Vitoria-Gasteiz.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Pays basque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les landes siliceuses connaissent souvent une grande abondance de Fougères : au Pays basque la Fougère-aigle constitue d’importants pâturages qui rougeoient à l’automne.
Trois kilomètres de file de voitures sur la D 932, en ce mercredi d’août, à l’entrée d’Espelette, dans le Pays basque.
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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.