battery

/[bætərɪ]/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#48,753

in German word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

7

similar word pairs

battery is aGermannoun. It means: Energiespeicher und eine Stromquelle, die auf der Umwandlung von chemischer in elektrische Energie basiert; Batterie Pronounced [bætərɪ]. Often confused with Butter and bitter.

Key facts for battery
PropertyValue
Headwordbattery
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[bætərɪ]
Letters7
Frequency rank#48,753
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of battery in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for battery is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [bætərɪ]. Corpus data places it at rank #48,753 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for battery, with forms such as "abttery", "batery", and "batetry". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Butter", "bitter", "better", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 German form is battery, spelled B-A-T-T-E-R-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Energiespeicher und eine Stromquelle, die auf der Umwandlung von chemischer in elektrische Energie basiert; Batterie
  2. 2
    Straftat, bei der es um widerrechtliche Anwendung von Gewalt, sei es schlagen, spucken oder bloße Berührung, geht; Angriff, Schlagen
  3. 3
    Bestürmung, Beschießung
  4. 4
    Gewehrkammer
  5. 5
    Akkumulator

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: abttery,batery,batetry,batterry,batteryy,batteyr,battrey,bbattery,btatery

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for battery

Misspelling Variants of "battery"

abttery7batery6batetry7batterry8batteryy8batteyr7battrey7bbattery8
Misspelling Variants of "battery"

Frequency rank: #48,753 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "battery"?
"battery" is spelled B-A-T-T-E-R-Y. The IPA pronunciation is [bætərɪ].
What does "battery" mean?
As a noun, "battery" means: Energiespeicher und eine Stromquelle, die auf der Umwandlung von chemischer in elektrische Energie basiert; Batterie
What words are commonly confused with "battery"?
"battery" is commonly confused with "Butter", "bitter", "better". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "battery"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "battery" is [bætərɪ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "battery" come from?
"battery" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby German words

Other entries that begin with the letter B in our German index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.