batifoler
\ba.ti.fɔ.le\
The verdict
“batifoler” is uncommon French (frequency #94,516 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,516
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jouer à la manière des enfants. Gambader, aller de-ci de-là.
Corpus desk
Index FR-batifoler · batifoler · French
batifoler · rank #94,516 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,516
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH baste
Nearest frequency peer: baste (-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 « batifoler »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- baseline
baseline
5,488 corpus weight
- basmati
basmati
5,487 corpus weight
- baste
baste
5,486 corpus weight
- batifoler
batifoler
5,485 corpus weight
- bavardé
bavardé
5,484 corpus weight
- BCD
BCD
5,482 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « batifoler » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | batifoler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ba.ti.fɔ.le\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #94,516 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « batifoler » en français
Rare enough to double-check
batifoler is uncommon French at frequency #94,516 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ba.ti.fɔ.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for batifoler, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is batifoler, spelled B-A-T-I-F-O-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Jouer à la manière des enfants. Gambader, aller de-ci de-là.
- 2S’amuser à courtiser une jeune fille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how batifoler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces jeunes gens s’amusent à batifoler.
… j’ai appelé la gare de Lyon pour me renseigner sur l’horaire des trains. J’en avais un à 7 h 50 qui perdait un temps épouvantable à batifoler du côté de Vierzon, mais l’un dans l’autre, c’était quand même le plus commode ….
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).