battaient
\ba.tɛ\
The verdict
“battaient” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,070. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,070
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe battre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-battaient · battaient · French
battaient · rank #28,070 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,070
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH barge
Nearest frequency peer: barge (-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 « battaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- barbelés
barbelés
71,934 corpus weight
- Barcelona
Barcelona
71,933 corpus weight
- barge
barge
71,932 corpus weight
- battaient
battaient
71,931 corpus weight
- bazin
bazin
71,930 corpus weight
- bee
bee
71,929 corpus weight
What this shows « battaient » 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 | battaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ba.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #28,070 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « battaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around battaient (IPA \ba.tɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #28,070 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe battre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for battaient, with forms such as "abttaient", "bataient", and "batatient". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "battent", "battant", "battait", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is battaient, spelled B-A-T-T-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe battre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how battaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les talons battaient de fièvre, la plante s’était couverte d’ampoules, dont la peau arrachée se collait à ses bas.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abttaient
- bataient
- batatient
- battaeint
- battaiennt
- battaientt
- battaietn
- battainet
- battiaent
- bbattaient
- btataient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of battaient - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).