bataclan
\ba.ta.klɑ̃\
The verdict
“bataclan” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,776. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,776
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ensemble d’objets embarrassants.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bataclan · bataclan · French
bataclan · rank #23,776 · 12 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,776
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH ballades
Nearest frequency peer: ballades (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « bataclan »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Badoo
Badoo
76,228 corpus weight
- Bahreïn
Bahreïn
76,227 corpus weight
- ballades
ballades
76,226 corpus weight
- bataclan
bataclan
76,225 corpus weight
- bei
bei
76,224 corpus weight
- bergeron
bergeron
76,223 corpus weight
What this shows « bataclan » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bataclan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.ta.klɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #23,776 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bataclan »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around bataclan (IPA \ba.ta.klɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #23,776 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for bataclan, with forms such as "abtaclan", "baatclan", and "batacaln". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is bataclan, spelled B-A-T-A-C-L-A-N.
Definition
- 1Ensemble d’objets embarrassants.
- 2Précisions superflues.
- 3Cohue ; troupe qui embarrasse.
- 4Vacarme, bruit gênant.
- 5Outils, pour les ouvriers.
- 6Bande, groupe d’amis.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bataclan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Tenez, monsieur Ledru, me dit le valet du bourreau, voilà votre affaire ; — vous n’avez pas besoin de vous presser ce soir ; — nous vous laissons tout le bataclan ; — demain, on les enterrera ; — il fera jour ; — ils ne s’enrhumeront pas pour avoir passé une nuit à l’air.
On fera la noce tout de suite, demain si ça se peut, on aura les dispenses, d’ailleurs ici les formalités ne sont pas lourdes, le doyen fait ce qu’il veut, on est marié avant qu’on ait le temps de crier gare, ce n’est pas comme en France, où il faut des bans, des publications, des délais, tout le bataclan, et tu pourras te vanter d’être la femme d’un brav…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abtaclan
- baatclan
- batacaln
- batacclan
- bataclann
- batacllan
- bataclna
- batalcan
- batcalan
- battaclan
- bbataclan
- btaaclan
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bataclan - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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