batellerie
\ba.tɛl.ʁi\
The verdict
“batellerie” is uncommon French (frequency #79,971 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,971
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Industrie du transport de marchandises par bateaux sur les fleuves, rivières, canaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-batellerie · batellerie · French
batellerie · rank #79,971 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,971
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH basics
Nearest frequency peer: basics (-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 « batellerie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- baptista
baptista
20,034 corpus weight
- barris
barris
20,033 corpus weight
- basez
basez
20,032 corpus weight
- basics
basics
20,031 corpus weight
- batellerie
batellerie
20,030 corpus weight
- baveuse
baveuse
20,028 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « batellerie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | batellerie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.tɛl.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #79,971 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « batellerie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
batellerie is uncommon French at frequency #79,971 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ba.tɛl.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for batellerie in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is batellerie, spelled B-A-T-E-L-L-E-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Industrie du transport de marchandises par bateaux sur les fleuves, rivières, canaux.
- 2Ensemble de bateaux qui servent à cette industrie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how batellerie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sous la protection de la tour romane de l’église Saint-Sauveur, gens de mer et gens de terre se réuniront pour revivre la grande époque de la batellerie locale.
Je tiens aussi à visiter, avant de partir, le port de Vitry, haut lieu de la batellerie où le commissaire Maigret, épuisé par sa course à vélo, finit par trouver la solution de l’énigme.
Synonyms
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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