battre de l’aile
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
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | battre de l’aile |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “battre de l’aile” sits in German frequency
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
- 1geschwächt sein, nicht gut laufen, Schwierigkeiten haben, sich verschlechtern; angeschlagen sein, einen Knacks haben, bergab gehen, zu Grunde gehen/zugrunde gehen, in die Brüche gehen
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- 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.
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