bata
The verdict
“bata” is uncommon French (frequency #69,613 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,613
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tambour traditionnel yoruba.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bata · bata · French
bata · rank #69,613 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,613
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bazire
Nearest frequency peer: Bazire (+1 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 « bata »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- aérodynamis…
aérodynamisme
30,394 corpus weight
- Bachand
Bachand
30,393 corpus weight
- bagnes
bagnes
30,392 corpus weight
- bata
bata
30,388 corpus weight
- Bazire
Bazire
30,387 corpus weight
- Beauvois
Beauvois
30,386 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bata » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bata |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #69,613 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bata » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bata is uncommon French at frequency #69,613 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tambour traditionnel yoruba.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bata, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is bata, spelled B-A-T-A.
Definition
- 1Tambour traditionnel yoruba.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bata appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les deux sœurs distillent une musique syncrétique et s’appuient sur une formation classique, commencée dès l’âge de 7 ans dans les conservatoires de Paris : piano pour Lisa, percussions classiques pour Naomi – qui s’est ensuite passionnée pour le cajon, caisse sud-américaine, et le bata, tambour traditionnel yoruba.
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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