batardeau
Letters
9 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
batardeau is aFrenchnoun. It means: Espèce de digue faite le plus souvent d’un double rang de pieux et d’ais, entre lesquels on entasse de la terre, construite au milieu du courant d’une rivière ou d’un canal, soit pour détourner les... Pronounced \ba.taʁ.do\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | batardeau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.taʁ.do\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for batardeau is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ba.taʁ.do\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for batardeau in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 batardeau, spelled B-A-T-A-R-D-E-A-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Espèce de digue faite le plus souvent d’un double rang de pieux et d’ais, entre lesquels on entasse de la terre, construite au milieu du courant d’une rivière ou d’un canal, soit pour détourner les eaux, soit pour les contenir pendant les travaux qu’on est obligé d’y faire.
- 2Cloison étanche appliquée à la carène d’un navire pour isoler une voie d’eau que l’on veut réparer.
- 3Construction formant une retenue d’eau, afin d’assécher un terrain où on doit effectuer des travaux.
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