battement
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#25,561
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
battement is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de battre, en parlant des choses. Pronounced \bat.mɑ̃\. Often confused with battent and bêtement.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | battement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bat.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #25,561 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for battement is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bat.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #25,561 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for battement, with forms such as "abttement", "batement", and "batetment". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "battent", "bêtement", "battements", 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 battement, spelled B-A-T-T-E-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action de battre, en parlant des choses.
- 2Mouvement en l’air qui se fait avec une jambe, tandis que l’autre soutient le poids du corps.
- 3Attaque qui commence par un coup léger donné sur l’épée de l’adversaire.
- 4Montant fixé à l’un des battants qui recouvre la jonction des deux battants ; du Montant fixe sur lequel viennent s’appuyer, quand on les ferme, les deux battants d’une porte, d’une grille ; de la Petite pièce métallique qui reçoit le choc d’une persienne et sert à l’arrêter.
- 5Secousse produite par l’oscillation du pendule d’une horloge.
- 6Oscillation ; vibration.
- 7Variation de niveau fréquente, régulière.
- 8Mouvement alternatif de dilatation et de resserrement du cœur, du pouls, des artères.
- 9Maxima d’intensité qu’on entend entre deux sons émis.
- 10Écart de temps.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abttement,batement,batetment,batteemnt,battemennt,battementt,battemetn,battemment,battemnet,battmeent,bbattement,btatement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for battement
Misspelling Variants of "battement"
Frequency rank: #25,561 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter B in our French index: