battre les rues
\batʁ le ʁy\
The verdict
“battre les rues” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Déambuler de long en large.
Corpus desk
Index FR-battre-les-rues · battre les rues · French
battre les rues · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 les rues |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \batʁ le ʁy\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « battre les rues » en français
Rare enough to double-check
battre les rues is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \batʁ le ʁy\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Déambuler de long en large.".
battre les rues has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is battre les rues, spelled B-A-T-T-R-E- -L-E-S- -R-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Déambuler de long en large.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how battre les rues appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand le docteur, de bon matin, battait les rues, entrait chez les bijoutiers, les lingères, les modistes, des yeux se braquaient aux fenêtres, ses moindres emplettes étaient épiées, la ville entière savait, le soir, qu’il avait donné encore une capeline de foulard, des chemises garnies de dentelle, un bracelet orné de saphirs.
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.