bateleur
\ba.tlœʁ\
The verdict
“bateleur” is uncommon French (frequency #92,462 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,462
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui batèle, qui fait des tours de passe-passe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bateleur · bateleur · French
bateleur · rank #92,462 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,462
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH baptisant
Nearest frequency peer: baptisant (-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 « bateleur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- balsa
balsa
7,543 corpus weight
- banalisés
banalisés
7,541 corpus weight
- baptisant
baptisant
7,540 corpus weight
- bateleur
bateleur
7,539 corpus weight
- bavant
bavant
7,538 corpus weight
- bearing
bearing
7,536 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bateleur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bateleur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ba.tlœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #92,462 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bateleur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bateleur is uncommon French at frequency #92,462 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ba.tlœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui batèle, qui fait des tours de passe-passe.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bateleur, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is bateleur, spelled B-A-T-E-L-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Qui batèle, qui fait des tours de passe-passe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bateleur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans une autre perspective, vous ne devez pas traiter votre carrière de manière bateleuse.
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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