battre le trottoir
\ba.tʁə lə tʁɔ.twaʁ\
The verdict
“battre le trottoir” 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
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Déambuler.
| 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) |
Where “battre le trottoir” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for battre le trottoir is 18 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ba.tʁə lə tʁɔ.twaʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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 le trottoir”
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-E- -T-R-O-T-T-O-I-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.