batteuse
French, noun/ba.tøz/
batteuse is spelled B-A-T-T-E-U-S-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 55,146th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Batteuse is a French feminine noun meaning “threshing machine, thresher” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a female equivalent of batteur: female drummer. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Celle qui aime à battre, à frapper”.
What does batteuse mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininethreshing machine, thresher
- 2
femininerarefemale equivalent of batteur: female drummer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Celle qui aime à battre, à frapper. 2. Celle qui, après la récolte, battait les gerbes ou les épis avec un fléau pour en faire sortir le grain. 3. Ouvrière qui battait certaines matières pour les écraser, ou pour les amincir. 4. Ouvrière qui prépare les feuilles d’étain propres à l’étamage des glaces.
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 batteuse
- batteuses plural
- batteur masculine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce batteuse?
- /ba.tøz/
- \ba.tøz\
- [ba.tøz]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to batteuse
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is batteuse in French?
batteuse appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).