battery
bat·te·ry/ˈbæt.əɹi/noun
battery is spelled B-A-T-T-E-R-Y: 7 letters and 3 syllables (bat·te·ry). It appears 33 times per million words in written English, the 2,888th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, battery means “A device used to power electric devices, consisting of one or more electrically connected electrochemical cells or (archaically) electrostatic cells” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of battery is batteries.
How many letters and syllables are in battery?
| Letters | 7: B-A-T-T-E-R-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: bat·te·ry |
| In writing | 33 times per million words; the 2,888th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
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 battery?
Battery appears 33 times per million words in written English, the 2,888th 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 battery?
- UK /ˈbæt.(ə)ɹi/
- UK /ˈbæt͡ʃɹi/
- US /ˈbæt.əɹi/
Battery has 3 syllables, split bat·te·ry in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-battery.ogg, En-us-battery.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with battery?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as battery from its last stressed vowel (/ætəɹi/):
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 battery
- batteries plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does battery mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A device used to power electric devices, consisting of one or more electrically connected electrochemical cells or (archaically) electrostatic cells.
alkaline battery
- 2
Such a device that has multiple cells.
Her phone needs a new battery because its present battery no longer holds a charge well.
- 3
informalThe energy stored in such a device.
Her phone did not have enough battery for another phone call.
- 4
The infliction of unlawful physical violence on a person, legally distinguished from assault, which involves the threat of impending violence.
Holonym: assault and battery
- 5
A coordinated group of artillery weapons, with any of various numbers of guns.
Outside the ancient fort, you can still see worn areas in the stone where the batteries were once placed.
- 6
Such a group of a certain size (number of guns and artillerists), within a schema of military unit organization.
They sent four batteries southward in an attempt to shore up the defenses around the depot.
- 7
archaicAn elevated platform on which cannon could be placed.
- 8
An array of similar things.
Schoolchildren take a battery of standard tests to measure their progress.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate battery?
Wiktionary records 4 abbreviations of battery: bat, batt, btry, btry..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Battery in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | pile, batterie , coups et blessures |
| German | Batterie, Akku , Körperverletzung, tätlicher Angriff , (Artillerie) Batterie , Legebatterie |
| Portuguese | pilha, bateria , lesão corporal , série |
| Spanish | pila, batería , lesiones, golpes, agresión |
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 battery come from?
Borrowed from Middle French batterie, from Old French baterie (“action of beating”), from batre (“beat”), from Latin battuō (“beat”), from Gaulish. Doublet of batterie. By surface analysis, batter + -y. The electrical sense was coined by American polymath Benjamin Franklin by analogy with a military battery that his series of Leyden jars resembled.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).