bâtons
\bɑ.tɔ̃\
The verdict
“bâtons” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,117. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,117
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de bâton.
Corpus desk
Index FR-batons · bâtons · French
bâtons · rank #12,117 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,117
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH brillants
Nearest frequency peer: brillants (-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 « bâtons »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- boycott
boycott
87,887 corpus weight
- brandon
brandon
87,886 corpus weight
- brillants
brillants
87,885 corpus weight
- bâtons
bâtons
87,884 corpus weight
- Canadian
Canadian
87,883 corpus weight
- capitales
capitales
87,882 corpus weight
What this shows « bâtons » 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 | bâtons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɑ.tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #12,117 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bâtons »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around bâtons (IPA \bɑ.tɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,117 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de bâton.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for bâtons, with forms such as "batons", "bbâtons", and "btâons". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bons", "bats", "beton", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is bâtons, spelled B-Â-T-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de bâton.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bâtons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En 68, nous expérimentâmes la marche sudique entre le Congo et le Jean-Bart, utilisant de mini-échasses comme telles, ou comme des bâtons de skis de randonnée, pour rapidifier notre rythme : nous essuyâmes au passage gros rires et quolibets… et croisant aujourd’hui au Parc bordelais ces flopées de gens respectables pratiquant dévotement leur sacro-sainte…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- batons
- bbâtons
- btâons
- bâotns
- bâtnos
- bâtonns
- bâtonss
- bâtosn
- bâttons
- âbtons
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bâtons - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).