battaient

\ba.tɛ\

/\ba.tɛ\/ verb

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

corpus weight

What this shows « battaient » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

battaient vs battent
78% similar
battaient vs battant
78% similar
battaient vs battait
78% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for battaient
PropertyValue
Headwordbattaient
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ba.tɛ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#28,070
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « battaient »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).battaientse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « barge » (#28,069), « bazin » (#28,071), « Barcelona » (#28,068). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « battaient » est au #28,070. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe battre.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how battaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

abttaient2bataient1batatient2battaeint2battaiennt1battaientt1battaietn2battainet2
Edit distance from "battaient"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "battaient"?
"battaient" is spelled B-A-T-T-A-I-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ba.tɛ\.
What does "battaient" mean?
As a verb, "battaient" means: Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe battre.
What words are commonly confused with "battaient"?
"battaient" is commonly confused with "battent", "battant", "battait". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "battaient"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "battaient" is \ba.tɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "battaient" come from?
"battaient" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "battaient", not the corpus desk frequency band.

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).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list