battre
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,765
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
battre is aFrenchverb. It means: Frapper de coups répétés. Pronounced \batʁ\. It ranks #1,765 in French word frequency. Often confused with battu and botté.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | battre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \batʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,765 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for battre is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \batʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,765 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 15 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for battre, with forms such as "abttre", "batre", and "batrte". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "battu", "botté", "bette", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is battre, spelled B-A-T-T-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Frapper de coups répétés.
- 2Frapper de coups répétés.
- 3Frapper de coups répétés.
- 4Mettre à portée de tir.
- 5Fouetter pour donner de la consistance.
- 6Battre le tambour dans un but précis.
- 7Mélanger.
- 8Se dit lorsque les vagues viennent s’écraser sur quelque chose.
- 9S’emploie également pour les voiles.
- 10(Terme technique ou spécialisé)
- 11Vaincre et, par extension, gagner sur quelqu’un à un sport, à un jeu, à une compétition.
- 12Dépasser.
- 13Produire des mouvements répétés.
- 14Parcourir un terrain à la recherche de gibier
- 15Se combattre. → voir se battre.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abttre,batre,batrte,batter,battrre,bbattre,btatre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for battre
Misspelling Variants of "battre"
Frequency rank: #1,765 in French
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Nearby French words
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