bâtisse
\ba.tis\
The verdict
“bâtisse” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,466. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,466
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action ou manière de bâtir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-batisse · bâtisse · French
bâtisse · rank #19,466 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,466
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bâtards
Nearest frequency peer: bâtards (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « bâtisse »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Briand
Briand
80,538 corpus weight
- buvant
buvant
80,537 corpus weight
- bâtards
bâtards
80,536 corpus weight
- bâtisse
bâtisse
80,535 corpus weight
- capuche
capuche
80,534 corpus weight
- carapace
carapace
80,533 corpus weight
What this shows « bâtisse » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bâtisse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.tis\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #19,466 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bâtisse »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around bâtisse (IPA \ba.tis\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,466 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for bâtisse, with forms such as "batisse", "bbâtisse", and "btâisse". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bêtise", "bénisse", "batista", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 bâtisse, spelled B-Â-T-I-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Action ou manière de bâtir.
- 2Maçonnerie d’un bâtiment.
- 3Construction faite sans art.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bâtisse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La petite maison simple et sans étages […] est appelée à disparaître également, la fureur de la bâtisse, qui sévit malgré une intense crise économique, ne s'arrêtant pas.
Nous descendîmes sur la promenade, je marchai devant le vieux château, bâtisse du dixième siècle, entourée de fossés, flanquée de douze tours massives ; […].
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- batisse
- bbâtisse
- btâisse
- bâitsse
- bâtise
- bâtises
- bâtsise
- bâttisse
- âbtisse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bâtisse - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bâtisse", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).