battent
\bat\
The verdict
“battent” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,589. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,589
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe battre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-battent · battent · French
battent · rank #6,589 · 9 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,589
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH basses
Nearest frequency peer: basses (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « battent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- avancées
avancées
93,415 corpus weight
- aviation
aviation
93,414 corpus weight
- basses
basses
93,413 corpus weight
- battent
battent
93,412 corpus weight
- bottes
bottes
93,411 corpus weight
- camions
camions
93,410 corpus weight
What this shows « battent » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | battent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bat\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #6,589 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « battent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around battent (IPA \bat\), averb. Corpus frequency is #6,589 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for battent, with forms such as "abttent", "batent", and "batetnt". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "battez", "battit", "batteur", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is battent, spelled B-A-T-T-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe battre.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent du verbe battre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how battent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sous les mailles du filet il ne retrouvera que les trois alouettes qui s’étaient posées et les “semets” qui battent des ailes.
2013, un socialiste, dans le cinquième pays le plus riche du monde, porte atteinte aux retraites, à la Sécu, invente l’ANI qui licencie, « désamnistie » ceux qui se battent pour la dignité, rogne le quotient familial, poursuit licenciements et casse sociale…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abttent
- batent
- batetnt
- battennt
- battentt
- battetn
- battnet
- bbattent
- btatent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of battent - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).