battologie
\ba.tɔ.lɔ.ʒi\
The verdict
“battologie” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Répétition inutile d’une même chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-battologie · battologie · French
battologie · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | battologie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.tɔ.lɔ.ʒi\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « battologie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
battologie is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ba.tɔ.lɔ.ʒi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Répétition inutile d’une même chose.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for battologie, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is battologie, spelled B-A-T-T-O-L-O-G-I-E.
Definition
- 1Répétition inutile d’une même chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how battologie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On se préoccupe peu de distinguer le pléonasme (admis en français) de la battologie oiseuse.
C’est une battologie d’abuser de l’adverbe très : C’est très très très intéressant…
Synonyms
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.