bataille
[ba.taj]
The verdict
“bataille” is uncommon German (frequency #81,313 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,313
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hieb, Schlag, Streich, Kampf, Schlacht
Corpus desk
Index DE-bataille · bataille · German
bataille · rank #81,313 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,313
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH basal
Nearest frequency peer: basal (-1 rank slots)
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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „bataille“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Balboa
Balboa
18,691 corpus weight
- basal
basal
18,689 corpus weight
- bataille
bataille
18,688 corpus weight
- Bauabschnit…
Bauabschnitten
18,687 corpus weight
- baumelt
baumelt
18,686 corpus weight
- Baumschulen
Baumschulen
18,685 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „bataille“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bataille |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ba.taj] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #81,313 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „bataille“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
bataille is uncommon German at frequency #81,313 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ba.taj]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Hieb, Schlag, Streich, Kampf, Schlacht".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for bataille, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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 borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is bataille, spelled B-A-T-A-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Hieb, Schlag, Streich, Kampf, Schlacht
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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