Batou
The verdict
“Batou” is uncommon French (frequency #96,656 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,656
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de Batu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-batou · Batou · French
Batou · rank #96,656 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,656
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bathily
Nearest frequency peer: Bathily (-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 « Batou »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- barolo
barolo
3,348 corpus weight
- bassons
bassons
3,347 corpus weight
- Bathily
Bathily
3,346 corpus weight
- Batou
Batou
3,345 corpus weight
- baudets
baudets
3,344 corpus weight
- Bellecombe
Bellecombe
3,343 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Batou » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Batou |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #96,656 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Batou » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Batou is uncommon French at frequency #96,656 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de Batu.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Batou, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Batou, spelled B-A-T-O-U.
Definition
- 1Variante de Batu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Batou appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les premières victoires de Batou anéantirent les restes de la liberté nationale dans les plaines immenses du Kipzak et du Turquestan. Dans sa course rapide, il traversa les royaumes connus aujourd’hui sous les noms de Cazan et d’Astracan, et les troupes qu’il détacha vers le mont Caucase, pénétrèrent dans le cœur de la Géorgie et de la Circassie. La disco…
Touchy, l’aîné des fils de Djinghis, étant mort, son fils Bâtou, le conquérant de la Russie, eut en partage le Kaptchak avec les régions du Volga et du Don ; Tchaghataï, le second, eut la Transoxiane, le pays des Ouzbeks et le Turkestan, contrée à laquelle les Mongols donnèrent son nom ; le troisième, Oktaï[13], désigné par Djinghis pour son successeur, d…
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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