# batch

> English word · Noun · IPA /bæt͡ʃ/ · frequency rank #8,122

## Definitions
1. The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time.
2. A quantity of anything produced at one operation.
3. A group or collection of things of the same kind, such as a batch of letters or the next batch of business.
4. A set of data to be processed at one time.
5. A bread roll.
6. A graduating class; school class.
7. The process of baking.

## Etymology
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.

## Easily confused with
- **BTC** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/batch-vs-btc)
- **both** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/batch-vs-both)
- **bath** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/batch-vs-bath)
- **beth** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/batch-vs-beth)
- **bats** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/batch-vs-bats)
- **bate** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/batch-vs-bate)
- **batt** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/batch-vs-batt)
- **beach** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/batch-vs-beach)
- **bitch** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/batch-vs-bitch)
- **bunch** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/batch-vs-bunch)
- **bench** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/batch-vs-bench)
- **baths** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/batch-vs-baths)
- **bates** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/batch-vs-bates)
- **baton** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/batch-vs-baton)
- **birch** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/batch-vs-birch)
- **butch** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/batch-vs-butch)
- **Busch** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/batch-vs-busch)
- **beech** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/batch-vs-beech)
- **bathe** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/batch-vs-bathe)
- **Burch** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/batch-vs-burch)

## Common misspellings (8)
`abtch`, `bacth`, `batcch`, `batchh`, `bathc`, `battch`, `bbatch`, `btach`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/batch