battre de l’aile

/[…]/ phrase

The verdict

“battre de l’aile” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency German
16
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: geschwächt sein, nicht gut laufen, Schwierigkeiten haben, sich verschlechtern; angeschlagen sein, einen Knacks haben, bergab gehen, zu Grunde gehen/zugrunde gehen, in die Brüche gehen

Key facts for battre de l’aile
PropertyValue
Headwordbattre de l’aile
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[…]
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “battre de l’aile” sits in German frequency

battre de l’aile falls outside the top-100,000 ranked German words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for battre de l’aile is 16 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "geschwächt sein, nicht gut laufen, Schwierigkeiten haben, sich verschlechtern; angeschlagen sein, einen Knacks haben, bergab gehen, zu Grunde gehen/zugrunde gehen, in die Brüche gehen".

No misspelling variants are generated for battre de l’aile in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. 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 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 battre de l’aile, spelled B-A-T-T-R-E- -D-E- -L-’-A-I-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    geschwächt sein, nicht gut laufen, Schwierigkeiten haben, sich verschlechtern; angeschlagen sein, einen Knacks haben, bergab gehen, zu Grunde gehen/zugrunde gehen, in die Brüche gehen

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "battre de l’aile"?
"battre de l’aile" is spelled B-A-T-T-R-E- -D-E- -L-’-A-I-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "battre de l’aile" mean?
As a phrase, "battre de l’aile" means: geschwächt sein, nicht gut laufen, Schwierigkeiten haben, sich verschlechtern; angeschlagen sein, einen Knacks haben, bergab gehen, zu Grunde gehen/zugrunde gehen, in die Brüche gehen
How do you pronounce "battre de l’aile"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "battre de l’aile" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "battre de l’aile" come from?
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Using “battre de l’aile”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct German spelling is B-A-T-T-R-E- -D-E- -L-’-A-I-L-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as […] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.