bateau-phare
\ba.to faʁ\
The verdict
“bateau-phare” 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) - Sorte de bateau qui remplit, en pleine mer, une fonction de phare.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bateau-phare · bateau-phare · French
bateau-phare · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 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-phare |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.to faʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bateau-phare » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bateau-phare is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ba.to faʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sorte de bateau qui remplit, en pleine mer, une fonction de phare.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for bateau-phare, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bateau-phare, spelled B-A-T-E-A-U---P-H-A-R-E.
Definition
- 1Sorte de bateau qui remplit, en pleine mer, une fonction de phare.
Synonyms
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.