batailleur
\ba.ta.jœʁ\
The verdict
“batailleur” is uncommon French (frequency #88,370 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,370
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui aime à batailler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-batailleur · batailleur · French
batailleur · rank #88,370 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,370
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bazeilles
Nearest frequency peer: Bazeilles (+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 « batailleur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bariolé
bariolé
11,634 corpus weight
- basanés
basanés
11,633 corpus weight
- batailleur
batailleur
11,631 corpus weight
- Bazeilles
Bazeilles
11,630 corpus weight
- bedeau
bedeau
11,627 corpus weight
- bedel
bedel
11,626 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « batailleur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | batailleur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ba.ta.jœʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #88,370 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « batailleur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
batailleur is uncommon French at frequency #88,370 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ba.ta.jœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui aime à batailler.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for batailleur, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is batailleur, spelled B-A-T-A-I-L-L-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Qui aime à batailler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how batailleur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Suivant le caractère des barbares, dont la fougue est violente, mais de peu de durée, ils se réconcilièrent en faisant de nouveau le serment de ne rien entreprendre l’un contre l’autre. Tous deux étaient d’un naturel turbulent, batailleur et vindicatif ; […].
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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