battez

\ba.te\

/\ba.te\/ verb

The verdict

“battez” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,497. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#22,497
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe battre.

Corpus desk

Index FR-battez · battez · French

battez · rank #22,497 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #22,497
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH Baltique

Nearest frequency peer: Baltique (-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 « battez »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « battez » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

battez vs battu
67% similar
battez vs botté
50% similar
battez vs bette
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for battez
PropertyValue
Headwordbattez
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ba.te\
Letters6
Frequency rank#22,497
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « battez »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).battezse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Baltique » (#22,496), « bienveillante » (#22,498), « avèrent » (#22,495). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « battez » est au #22,497. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around battez (IPA \ba.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #22,497 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for battez, with forms such as "abttez", "batetz", and "batez". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "battu", "botté", "bette", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is battez, spelled B-A-T-T-E-Z.

Definition

  1. 1
    Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe battre.
  2. 2
    Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif du verbe battre.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how battez appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Exterminez-vous ; allez pour une femme à Sainte-Pélagie, tuez vingt-deux hommes, abandonnez sept filles, servez Laban, traversez le désert, côtoyez le bagne, couvrez-vous de gloire, couvrez-vous de honte, refusez comme Nelson de livrer bataille pour aller baiser l’épaule de lady Hamilton, comme Bonaparte battez le vieux Wurmser, fendez-vous sur le pont d’…

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • abttez
  • batetz
  • batez
  • battezz
  • battze
  • bbattez
  • btatez

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of battez - 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.

abttez2batetz2batez1battezz1battze2bbattez1btatez2
Edit distance from "battez"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "battez"?
"battez" is spelled B-A-T-T-E-Z. The IPA pronunciation is \ba.te\.
What does "battez" mean?
As a verb, "battez" means: Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe battre.
What words are commonly confused with "battez"?
"battez" is commonly confused with "battu", "botté", "bette". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "battez"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "battez" is \ba.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "battez" come from?
"battez" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Yes, PlainSpell is a completely free word reference. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, confusable pairs, homophones, and spelling corrections across 5 languages without any sign-up or subscription.

Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "battez", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list