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bataille

French, noun

bataille is spelled B-A-T-A-I-L-L-E (8 letters) and appears 50 times per million words in written French, the 1,660th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bataille is a French feminine noun meaning “battle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, bataillé is a different word: “past participle of batailler”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Combat général ordonné entre deux armées. → voir champ de bataille, cheval de bataille, plan de bataille…”.

What does bataille mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininebattle

    bataille navale

  2. 2

    femininewar (card game)

verb

as bataillé
  1. 1

    past participle of batailler

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. 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 … 2. Toute sorte de lutte. 3. Affrontement entre deux entités. 4. Motivation pour ou contre quelque chose. → voir livrer bataille et cheval de bataille

adjective: 1. Qualifie une cloche avec le batail d'une autre couleur.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of bataille

  • batailles plural
  • bataillée feminine
  • bataillés masculine plural
  • bataillées feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to bataille

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is bataille in French?

bataille appears 50 times per million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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