battre du tambour
\ba.tʁə dy tɑ̃.buʁ\
The verdict
“battre du tambour” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tirer des sons du tambour, jouer du tambour.
Corpus desk
Index FR-battre-du-tambour · battre du tambour · French
battre du tambour · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-6 6 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 | battre du tambour |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ba.tʁə dy tɑ̃.buʁ\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « battre du tambour » en français
Rare enough to double-check
battre du tambour is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ba.tʁə dy tɑ̃.buʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tirer des sons du tambour, jouer du tambour.".
No misspelling variants are generated for battre du tambour in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is battre du tambour, spelled B-A-T-T-R-E- -D-U- -T-A-M-B-O-U-R.
Definition
- 1Tirer des sons du tambour, jouer du tambour.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how battre du tambour appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je lus le journal que le commandant m’avait confié. Un grand homme du temps y jouait son petit personnage, battait du tambour devant sa boutique. La guerre, qui donnait de l’éclat à son boniment, lui paraissait somme toute bienfaisante.
Synonyms
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.