battre la chamade
\ba.tʁə la ʃa.mad\
The verdict
“battre la chamade” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Signaler son intention de capituler au moyen d’un tambour.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | battre la chamade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ba.tʁə la ʃa.mad\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “battre la chamade” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for battre la chamade is 17 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ba.tʁə la ʃa.mad\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for battre la chamade in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 la chamade, spelled B-A-T-T-R-E- -L-A- -C-H-A-M-A-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Signaler son intention de capituler au moyen d’un tambour.
- 2Capituler, succomber à une tentation.
- 3Battre rapidement sous l’effet d’une vive émotion.
- 4Battre rapidement ou fortement.
This word in other languages
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- The one correct French spelling is B-A-T-T-R-E- -L-A- -C-H-A-M-A-D-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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