bâtonnet
French, noun/ba.tɔ.nɛ/
bâtonnet is spelled B-Â-T-O-N-N-E-T (8 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 51,956th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bâtonnet is a French masculine noun meaning “small stick” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Objet de forme cylindrique, dont les dimensions sont de l'ordre du décimètre”.
What does bâtonnet mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesmall stick
des bâtonnets de poisson
- 2
masculinebatonnet (piece of vegetable cut into the shape of a small stick)
- 3
masculinerod cell (any of the cylindrical photoreceptor cells in the retina that function in dim light levels)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Objet de forme cylindrique, dont les dimensions sont de l'ordre du décimètre. 2. Sorte de petit bâton taillé en pointe par les deux bouts et qui sert à un jeu d’enfants. 3. Infusoires ou microorganismes qui affectent une forme cylindrique. 4. Cellule réceptrice de l’œil utilisée pour la vision mésopique ainsi que pour la vision nocturne.
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 bâtonnet
- bâtonnets plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bâtonnet?
- /ba.tɔ.nɛ/
- /bɑ.tɔ.nɛ/
- \bɑ.tɔ.nɛ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is bâtonnet in French?
bâtonnet appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).