batten
German, verb
batten is spelled B-A-T-T-E-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written German, the 148,565th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Batten is a German verb meaning “to be useful, to be of use, to help” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does batten mean in English?
verb
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obsoleteto be useful, to be of use, to help
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of batten
- battet present singular third-person
- battete past
- gebattet participle past
- haben auxiliary
- battend participle present
- batte first-person indicative present
- battest indicative present second-person
- batteten first-person indicative plural
- battetest indicative preterite second-person
- battetet indicative plural preterite
- batt imperative second-person singular
- habe gebattet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gebattet first-person indicative multiword-construction
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is batten in German?
batten appears about once in every 8 million words in written German.
batten0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000
rarerper million words of written Germanmore common
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).