batiste
\ba.tist\
The verdict
“batiste” is uncommon French (frequency #65,730 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,730
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espèce de toile de lin ou de chanvre très fine et d’un tissu très serré.
Corpus desk
Index FR-batiste · batiste · French
batiste · rank #65,730 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,730
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH beans
Nearest frequency peer: beans (+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 « batiste »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- barette
barette
34,276 corpus weight
- bastides
bastides
34,274 corpus weight
- bastons
bastons
34,273 corpus weight
- batiste
batiste
34,271 corpus weight
- beans
beans
34,270 corpus weight
- beard
beard
34,269 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « batiste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | batiste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.tist\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #65,730 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « batiste » en français
Rare enough to double-check
batiste is uncommon French at frequency #65,730 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ba.tist\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Espèce de toile de lin ou de chanvre très fine et d’un tissu très serré.".
No misspelling variants are generated for batiste 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 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 batiste, spelled B-A-T-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Espèce de toile de lin ou de chanvre très fine et d’un tissu très serré.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how batiste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mademoiselle de Langeais ouvrit la boîte, y trouva un mouchoir de batiste très-fine, souillé de sueur.
Une des recherches de leur luxe est encore d’avoir un très beau mouchoir de batiste brodé garni de dentelles.
Synonyms
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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