batteuse
The verdict
“batteuse” is an uncommon French word, ranked #55,078 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #55,078
- frequency rank, French
- 8
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Celle qui aime à battre, à frapper.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | batteuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.tøz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #55,078 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “batteuse” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for batteuse is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ba.tøz\. Corpus data places it at rank #55,078 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for batteuse in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 batteuse, spelled B-A-T-T-E-U-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Celle qui aime à battre, à frapper.
- 2Celle qui, après la récolte, battait les gerbes ou les épis avec un fléau pour en faire sortir le grain.
- 3Ouvrière qui battait certaines matières pour les écraser, ou pour les amincir.
- 4Ouvrière qui battait certaines matières pour les écraser, ou pour les amincir.
- 5Ouvrière qui battait les livres dans un atelier de reliure.
- 6Musicienne qui joue de la batterie.
- 7Désignation de grade d’une membre des Forces armées canadiennes portant l’uniforme de l’Armée canadienne et affectée aux fonctions de batteuse détenant le grade de soldate.
- 8Joueuse qui défend son guichet avec une batte et qui essaie de marquer des points.
- 9Machine qui sert à battre les récoltes à grain.
- 10Machine pour le battage des cocons du ver à soie.
- 11Petite serrure avec un pêne pivotant ou un demi-tour.
- 12Mitrailleuse.
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Frequency rank: #55,078 in French
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Using “batteuse”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-A-T-T-E-U-S-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ba.tøz\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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