bâtissent
\bɑ.tis\
The verdict
“bâtissent” is uncommon French (frequency #57,799 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,799
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de bâtir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-batissent · bâtissent · French
bâtissent · rank #57,799 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,799
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bukowski
Nearest frequency peer: Bukowski (-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 « bâtissent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- brindille
brindille
42,205 corpus weight
- broadcast
broadcast
42,204 corpus weight
- Bukowski
Bukowski
42,203 corpus weight
- bâtissent
bâtissent
42,202 corpus weight
- Bérégovoy
Bérégovoy
42,201 corpus weight
- cabillaud
cabillaud
42,200 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bâtissent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bâtissent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bɑ.tis\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,799 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bâtissent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bâtissent is uncommon French at frequency #57,799 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bɑ.tis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bâtissent, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is bâtissent, spelled B-Â-T-I-S-S-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de bâtir.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif imparfait de bâtir.
- 3Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent de bâtir.
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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