batter
French, verb/ba.te/
batter is spelled B-A-T-T-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written French, the 132,154th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Batter is a French verb meaning “to bat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Renvoyer la balle avec la batte de baseball”.
What does batter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to bat
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Renvoyer la balle avec la batte de baseball.
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 batter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- battant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- batté participle past
- batte first-person indicative present
- battes indicative present second-person
- battons first-person indicative plural
- battez indicative plural present
- battent indicative plural present
- battais first-person imperfect indicative
- battait imperfect indicative singular
- battions first-person imperfect indicative
- battiez imperfect indicative plural
- battaient imperfect indicative plural
- battai first-person historic indicative
- battas historic indicative past
- batta historic indicative past
- battâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce batter?
- /ba.te/
- \ba.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is batter in French?
batter appears about once in every 17 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).