Which to use
“bassin” and “bassins” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #3,382
- “bassin” frequency rank
- #10,276
- “bassins” frequency rank
- 13658
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | bassin | bassins |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Grande cavité osseuse qui forme la base du tronc et sert de point d’attache aux membres inférieurs. | Pluriel de bassin. |
Same sound, different letters: bassin vs bassins
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. bassin runs 6 letters (CVCCVC) against bassins's 7 (CVCCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - bassin and bassins
This is the hard kind. bassin and bassins are pronounced identically (\ba.sɛ̃\) and both work as anoun. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “bassin” sits inside “bassins”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 13658, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
bassin is recorded at frequency rank #3,382, classified as anoun, pronounced \ba.sɛ̃\. bassins is at rank #10,276, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ba.sɛ̃\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 13658, this pair ranks #400,098 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of bassin vs bassins
Shared letters: abins. Private to "bassin": -. Private to "bassins": -.
"bassin" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC · "bassins" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
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After this comparison
You've separated the homophone pair "bassin" / "bassins". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "bassin" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "bassins" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #400,098 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "bassin" and "bassins" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "bambins vs bassins". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #400,098 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.