battre le trottoir
\ba.tʁə lə tʁɔ.twaʁ\
The verdict
“battre le trottoir” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Déambuler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-battre-le-trottoir · battre le trottoir · French
battre le trottoir · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 18 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 le trottoir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ba.tʁə lə tʁɔ.twaʁ\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « battre le trottoir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
battre le trottoir is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ba.tʁə lə tʁɔ.twaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Déambuler.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for battre le trottoir, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is battre le trottoir, spelled B-A-T-T-R-E- -L-E- -T-R-O-T-T-O-I-R.
Definition
- 1Déambuler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how battre le trottoir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Certaine nuit que je battais le trottoir, un peu perplexe, j’y retrouvai cette Carola Venitequa que vous avez vue, l’ex-maîtresse à Protos, qui m’hospitalisa décemment.
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.