bataillons
\ba.ta.jɔ̃\
The verdict
“bataillons” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,520. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,520
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de bataillon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bataillons · bataillons · French
bataillons · rank #13,520 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,520
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH baroque
Nearest frequency peer: baroque (-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 « bataillons »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Bangladesh
Bangladesh
86,484 corpus weight
- barbier
barbier
86,483 corpus weight
- baroque
baroque
86,482 corpus weight
- bataillons
bataillons
86,481 corpus weight
- Betty
Betty
86,480 corpus weight
- bourreau
bourreau
86,479 corpus weight
What this shows « bataillons » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bataillons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.ta.jɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #13,520 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bataillons »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around bataillons (IPA \ba.ta.jɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,520 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de bataillon.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for bataillons, with forms such as "abtaillons", "baatillons", and "bataillnos". 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. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "bataillon", "batailles", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bataillons, spelled B-A-T-A-I-L-L-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de bataillon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bataillons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Soutenus dans le ciel par les avions de la coalition (qui, à partir de la fin septembre, avaient concentré quasiment tous leurs efforts sur Kobané), ultra-déterminés, ultra-organisés, renforcés par leurs bataillons féminins d’une redoutable efficacité, les YPG reconquirent, mètre après mètre, la moitié de la ville que les djihadistes leur avaient prise, a…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abtaillons
- baatillons
- bataillnos
- bataillonns
- bataillonss
- bataillosn
- batailolns
- batailons
- batalilons
- batiallons
- battaillons
- bbataillons
- btaaillons
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bataillons - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).