battre la chamade
\ba.tʁə la ʃa.mad\
The verdict
“battre la chamade” 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 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
Rare enough to double-check
battre la chamade is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ba.tʁə la ʃa.mad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
battre la chamade has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 battre la chamade, spelled B-A-T-T-R-E- -L-A- -C-H-A-M-A-D-E.
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
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.
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Using “battre la chamade”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- 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.
- Say it as \ba.tʁə la ʃa.mad\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.