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battered

/ˈbætəɹd/adjective, verb

battered is spelled B-A-T-T-E-R-E-D: 8 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 2.6 times per million words in written English, the 16,896th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, battered means “Beaten up through a lot of use; in rough condition; weathered” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in battered?

Letters8: B-A-T-T-E-R-E-D
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing2.6 times per million words; the 16,896th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
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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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is battered?

Battered appears 2.6 times per million words in written English, the 16,896th 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 battered?

  • UK /ˈbætəd/
  • US /ˈbætəɹd/

Battered has 2 syllables (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-battered.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with battered?

3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as battered from its last stressed vowel (/ætəɹd/):

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 battered

  • more battered comparative
  • most battered superlative

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

What does battered mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Beaten up through a lot of use; in rough condition; weathered.

  2. 2

    Beaten repeatedly or consistently; beaten up.

  3. 3

    informalDrunk; inebriated.

  4. 4

    Coated with batter (noun).

verb

  1. 1

    simple past and past participle of batter (a form of batter)

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

Battered in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchusé (beaten up through a lot of use)
Germanabgewetzt, abgenutzt, zerschlissen, zerbeult, ramponiert (beaten up through a lot of use)
Portuguesesurrado (beaten up through a lot of use), empanado ((cooking) coated with batter)
Spanishmaltrecho (beaten up through a lot of use)

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 battered come from?

From batter + -ed.

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

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