bataille
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,650
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
bataille is aFrenchnoun. It means: Combat général ordonné entre deux armées. → voir champ de bataille, cheval de bataille, plan de bataille, bataille navale, bataille aérienne, en ordre de bataille et … Pronounced \ba.tɑj\. It ranks #1,650 in French word frequency. Often confused with braille and bataillon.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bataille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.tɑj\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,650 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bataille is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ba.tɑj\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,650 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for bataille, with forms such as "abtaille", "baatille", and "bataile". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "braille", "bataillon", "batailles", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is bataille, spelled B-A-T-A-I-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Combat général ordonné entre deux armées. → voir champ de bataille, cheval de bataille, plan de bataille, bataille navale, bataille aérienne, en ordre de bataille et …
- 2Toute sorte de lutte.
- 3Affrontement entre deux entités.
- 4Motivation pour ou contre quelque chose. → voir livrer bataille et cheval de bataille
- 5Jeu de cartes qui se joue à deux sur le principe de la plus forte carte l’emporte.
- 6Organisation, préparation des forces pour le combat. → voir en ordre de bataille, plan de bataille et champ de bataille
- 7Rangement de plusieurs objets. → voir en bataille
- 8Corps de bataille.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abtaille,baatille,bataile,batailel,batalile,batialle,battaille,bbataille,btaaille
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bataille
Misspelling Variants of "bataille"
Frequency rank: #1,650 in French
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