batte
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#18,662
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
batte is aFrenchnoun. It means: Instrument qui sert à battre, à tasser, à fouler et dont la forme varie suivant les métiers. Pronounced \bat\. Often confused with bite and bute.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | batte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bat\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #18,662 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for batte is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bat\. Corpus data places it at rank #18,662 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for batte, with forms such as "abtte", "bate", and "batet". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bite", "bute", "bave", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is batte, spelled B-A-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Instrument qui sert à battre, à tasser, à fouler et dont la forme varie suivant les métiers.
- 2Plateau de bois dont on se sert pour battre et aplatir la terre.
- 3Long bâton servant à frapper la balle dans certains sports, comme le baseball (alors au masculin, au Québec) et le cricket.
- 4Morceau de bois, entouré d’un lien et muni d’un manche, qui sert à battre les tuileaux et le grès pour faire le ciment.
- 5Sabre de bois d’arlequin.
- 6Grande mailloche, utilisée pour les grosses caisses et autres percussions assimilées.
- 7Petit banc sur lequel les blanchisseuses battent le linge.
- 8Maillet en bois avec un long manche dont se servent les tonneliers pour faire sauter, par le contre-coup, le bondon d’une feuillette, en frappant tout à l’entour du bondon.
- 9Instrument dont on se sert pour faire entrer le bouchon dans le goulot de la bouteille.
- 10Partie du battoir qui frappe et reçoit la balle.
- 11Bâton avec lequel on broie les couleurs chez les marbreurs de papier.
- 12Baguette du tapissier pour écharper la laine et la bourre.
- 13Action de battre l’or ou l’argent pour le réduire en feuilles.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abtte,bate,batet,bbatte,btate
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for batte
Misspelling Variants of "batte"
Frequency rank: #18,662 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter B in our French index: