battrais
\ba.tʁɛ\
The verdict
“battrais” is uncommon French (frequency #64,263 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,263
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du conditionnel de battre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-battrais · battrais · French
battrais · rank #64,263 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,263
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH baumes
Nearest frequency peer: baumes (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « battrais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bardeaux
bardeaux
35,742 corpus weight
- barrio
barrio
35,741 corpus weight
- battrais
battrais
35,738 corpus weight
- baumes
baumes
35,737 corpus weight
- Bausch
Bausch
35,736 corpus weight
- BBM
BBM
35,735 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « battrais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | battrais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ba.tʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #64,263 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « battrais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
battrais is uncommon French at frequency #64,263 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ba.tʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for battrais, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 battrais, spelled B-A-T-T-R-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du conditionnel de battre.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier du conditionnel de battre.
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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