bateau-école
\ba.to.e.kɔl\
The verdict
“bateau-école” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Établissement qui prépare à l’examen du permis de piloter les bateaux à moteur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bateau-ecole · bateau-école · French
bateau-école · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bateau-école |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.to.e.kɔl\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
bateau-école is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ba.to.e.kɔl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bateau-école, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is bateau-école, spelled B-A-T-E-A-U---É-C-O-L-E.
Definition
- 1Établissement qui prépare à l’examen du permis de piloter les bateaux à moteur.
- 2Bateau affecté à l’apprentissage de la navigation, y compris simulée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bateau-école appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le bateau-école peut même être fiché en pleine terre.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.