# battered vs Battersea

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### battered
*verb · IPA /ˈbætəd/ · frequency rank #16,848*
simple past and past participle of batter

### Battersea
*name · IPA /bætəsi/ · frequency rank #33,948*
A suburban area in the borough of Wandsworth, London (OS grid ref TQ2776).

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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