battais
\ba.tɛ\
The verdict
“battais” is uncommon French (frequency #55,768 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,768
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe battre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-battais · battais · French
battais · rank #55,768 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,768
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bavette
Nearest frequency peer: bavette (+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 « battais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bana
bana
44,237 corpus weight
- bangladais
bangladais
44,236 corpus weight
- battais
battais
44,233 corpus weight
- bavette
bavette
44,232 corpus weight
- BCG
BCG
44,231 corpus weight
- belleau
belleau
44,229 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « battais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | battais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ba.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #55,768 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « battais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
battais is uncommon French at frequency #55,768 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ba.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for battais, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is battais, spelled B-A-T-T-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe battre.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe battre.
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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