bateau
/bætˈəʊ/
"bateau" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bateau” is uncommon English (frequency #89,137 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,137
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A small, flat-bottomed type of boat.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bateau · bateau · English
bateau · rank #89,137 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,137
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH batching
Nearest frequency peer: batching (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “bateau”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Barberton
Barberton
10,869 corpus weight
- bardic
bardic
10,868 corpus weight
- basswood
basswood
10,866 corpus weight
- batching
batching
10,865 corpus weight
- bateau
bateau
10,864 corpus weight
- beastmaster
beastmaster
10,859 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “bateau” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bateau |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bætˈəʊ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #89,137 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “bateau” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bateau is uncommon English at frequency #89,137 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /bætˈəʊ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A small, flat-bottomed type of boat.".
Zero misspellings are on record for bateau in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French bateau. The correct English form is bateau, spelled B-A-T-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1A small, flat-bottomed type of boat.
Etymology
Borrowed from French bateau.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).