battles

\ba.tœl\

/\ba.tœl\/ noun

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The verdict

“battles” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,021. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#46,021
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
16
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de battle.

Corpus desk

Index FR-battles · battles · French

battles · rank #46,021 · 8 variants · 16 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #46,021
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH barrez

Nearest frequency peer: barrez (-2 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 « battles »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « battles » 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).

battles vs battre
71% similar
battles vs bottes
71% similar
battles vs battue
71% similar

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

Key facts for battles
PropertyValue
Headwordbattles
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ba.tœl\
Letters7
Frequency rank#46,021
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs16
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « battles »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).battlesse 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 « barrez » (#46,019), « belette » (#46,023), « barak » (#46,018). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « battles » est au #46,021. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around battles (IPA \ba.tœl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,021 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de battle.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for battles, with forms such as "abttles", "batltes", and "battels". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "battre", "bottes", "battue", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is battles, spelled B-A-T-T-L-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de battle.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Mais on voit des croisements avec une danse plus « sociale », comme le hip-hop ou, aujourd’hui, le voguing, le ballroom, mais aussi les danses de couple, les battles, les mouvements spontanés.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • abttles
  • batltes
  • battels
  • battless
  • battlles
  • battlse
  • bbattles
  • btatles

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of battles - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

abttles2batltes2battels2battless1battlles1battlse2bbattles1btatles2
Edit distance from "battles"

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 "battles"?
"battles" is spelled B-A-T-T-L-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ba.tœl\.
What does "battles" mean?
As a noun, "battles" means: Pluriel de battle.
What words are commonly confused with "battles"?
"battles" is commonly confused with "battre", "bottes", "battue". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "battles"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "battles" is \ba.tœl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "battles" come from?
"battles" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

belette#46,023Bagneux#46,016birmans#46,027blondin#46,029

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

belote8 variantsbesace8 variantsbougon8 variantsaffable8 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list