battez
\ba.te\
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
- attentionné
attentionné
77,508 corpus weight
- augmentera
augmentera
77,507 corpus weight
- avèrent
avèrent
77,506 corpus weight
- Baltique
Baltique
77,505 corpus weight
- battez
battez
77,504 corpus weight
- bienveillan…
bienveillante
77,503 corpus weight
What this shows « battez » 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 | battez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ba.te\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #22,497 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « battez »
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
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe battre.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif du verbe battre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how battez appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).