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batis

noun

batis is spelled B-A-T-I-S: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 29 million words in written English, the 163,711th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, batis means “Any of several passerine birds in the genus Batis, related to wattle-eyes” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of batis is batises.

How many letters and syllables are in batis?

Letters5: B-A-T-I-S
In writingabout once in every 29 million words; the 163,711th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is batis?

Batis appears about once in every 29 million words in written English, the 163,711th 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).

What rhymes with batis?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as batis.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: basti.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of batis

  • batises plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does batis mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Any of several passerine birds in the genus Batis, related to wattle-eyes.

  2. 2

    Any member of the genus Batis of saltworts.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does batis come from?

From translingual Batis, the genus in question, itself likely from Ancient Greek βατίς (batís).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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