bastonner
\bɑs.tɔ.ne\
The verdict
“bastonner” is uncommon French (frequency #87,360 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,360
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Donner des coups de bâton.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bastonner · bastonner · French
bastonner · rank #87,360 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,360
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bardin
Nearest frequency peer: Bardin (-3 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « bastonner »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- balayait
balayait
12,647 corpus weight
- balbutiante
balbutiante
12,646 corpus weight
- Bamenda
Bamenda
12,645 corpus weight
- Bardin
Bardin
12,644 corpus weight
- bastonner
bastonner
12,641 corpus weight
- bellâtre
bellâtre
12,637 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bastonner » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bastonner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bɑs.tɔ.ne\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #87,360 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bastonner » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bastonner is uncommon French at frequency #87,360 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bɑs.tɔ.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for bastonner in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bastonner, spelled B-A-S-T-O-N-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Donner des coups de bâton.
- 2Donner la bastonnade. ^([1])
- 3Frapper quelqu'un.
- 4Se battre, prendre part à une baston.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bastonner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il bannit tous les instruments de musique ; s’il découvrait la plus petite flûte, il la brisait en public, la jetait aux flammes ; le fautif était mis aux fers, abondamment bastonné, avant d’être expulsé de la communauté.
Il m'a bastonné.
This word in other languages
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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