battantes
\ba.tɑ̃t\
The verdict
“battantes” is uncommon French (frequency #78,167 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,167
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de battant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-battantes · battantes · French
battantes · rank #78,167 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,167
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bascules
Nearest frequency peer: bascules (-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 « battantes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Baloutchist…
Baloutchistan
21,838 corpus weight
- bantu
bantu
21,837 corpus weight
- baromètres
baromètres
21,836 corpus weight
- bascules
bascules
21,835 corpus weight
- battantes
battantes
21,834 corpus weight
- bayes
bayes
21,833 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « battantes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | battantes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ba.tɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #78,167 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « battantes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
battantes is uncommon French at frequency #78,167 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ba.tɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de battant.".
battantes doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is battantes, spelled B-A-T-T-A-N-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de battant.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).