battée
French, noun/ba.te/
battée is spelled B-A-T-T-É-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 81 million words in written French, the 282,260th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Battée is a French feminine noun meaning “pan (used in gold prospecting)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a feminine singular of batté. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ce qu'un papetier, un relieur, battait de papier à la fois”.
What does battée mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininepan (used in gold prospecting)
verb
- 1
femininefeminine singular of batté
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Ce qu'un papetier, un relieur, battait de papier à la fois. 2. Sorte d’écuelle utilisée par le chercheur d’or, l’orpailleur, pour séparer les pépites des sables plus légers. 3. Partie du dormant contre laquelle bat une porte.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of battée
- battées plural
- batée
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce battée?
- /ba.te/
- \ba.te\
- [bate]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is battée in French?
battée appears about once in every 81 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).