batch
/bæt͡ʃ/noun, verb, adjective
batch is spelled B-A-T-C-H: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 8.1 times per million words in written English, the 8,146th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, batch means “The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of batch is batches.
How many letters and syllables are in batch?
| Letters | 5: B-A-T-C-H |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 8.1 times per million words; the 8,146th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How common is batch?
Batch appears 8.1 times per million words in written English, the 8,146th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce batch?
- /bæt͡ʃ/
Batch has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-batch.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with batch
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Forms of batch
- batches plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- batching participle, present
- batched participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does batch mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time.
We made a batch of cookies to take to the party.
- 2
A quantity of anything produced at one operation.
We poured a bucket of water in at the top, and the ice-maker dispensed a batch of ice-cubes at the bottom.
- 3
A group or collection of things of the same kind, such as a batch of letters or the next batch of business.
- 4
rareA group of bakers.
- 5
A set of data to be processed at one time.
The system throttled itself to batches of 50 requests at a time to keep the thread count under control.
- 6
IndiaA graduating class; school class.
She was the valedictorian of Batch ’73.
- 7
UKA bread roll.
- 8
obsoleteThe process of baking.
- 9
A bank; a sandbank.
- 10
A field or patch of ground lying near a stream; the dale in which a stream flows.
verb
- 1
To aggregate things together into a batch.
The contractor batched the purchase orders for the entire month into one statement.
- 2
To handle a set of input data or requests as a batch process.
The purchase requests for the day were stored in a queue and batched for printing the next morning.
- 3
informalTo live as a bachelor temporarily, of a married man or someone virtually married.
I am batching next week when my wife visits her sister.
adjective
- 1
Of a process, operating for a defined set of conditions, and then halting.
The plant had two batch assembly lines for packaging, as well as a continuous feed production line.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Batch in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | fournée , lot , jeu |
| German | Liefermenge, Stapel , Partie, Charge , Satz |
| Portuguese | fornada , lote , lotes, jogo, jogos |
| Spanish | hornada, tanda, horneada , lote |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does batch come from?
From Middle English bach, bache, bahche, from Old English *bæċċ (“something baked”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-West Germanic *bakku, from Proto-Germanic *bakkuz (“baking, baked goods”), cognate with Middle High German becke (“something baked, pastry, baking, bakery”). Related also to Old English bacan (“to bake”), Old English ġebæc (“something baked”), Dutch gebak, German Gebäck, Dutch baksel.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).