bâtonnat
French, noun
bâtonnat is spelled B-Â-T-O-N-N-A-T (8 letters) and appears about once in every 49 million words in written French, the 221,532nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bâtonnat is a French masculine noun meaning “barristering” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, bâtonnât is a different word: “third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of bâtonner”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Fonction de bâtonnier des avocats ou durée de cette fonction”.
What does bâtonnat mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebarristering
- 2
masculinebarristership
verb
- 1
third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of bâtonner
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Fonction de bâtonnier des avocats ou durée de cette fonction.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of bâtonnat
- bâtonnats plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is bâtonnat in French?
bâtonnat appears about once in every 49 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).