battue

\ba.ty\

/\ba.ty\/ noun

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The verdict

“battue” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,341. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#8,341
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
19
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de plusieurs personnes qui battent les bois et les taillis pour en faire sortir le gibier.

Corpus desk

Index FR-battue · battue · French

battue · rank #8,341 · 6 variants · 19 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #8,341
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH batailles

Nearest frequency peer: batailles (-1 rank slots)

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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « battue »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « battue » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

battue vs botté
50% similar
battue vs bette
67% similar
battue vs battus
83% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for battue
PropertyValue
Headwordbattue
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ba.ty\
Letters6
Frequency rank#8,341
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs19
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « battue »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.battuese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « batailles » (#8,340), « battus » (#8,342), « Bank » (#8,339). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « battue » est au #8,341. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around battue (IPA \ba.ty\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,341 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for battue, with forms such as "abttue", "batteu", and "batue". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "botté", "bette", "battus", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is battue, spelled B-A-T-T-U-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de plusieurs personnes qui battent les bois et les taillis pour en faire sortir le gibier.
  2. 2
    Bruit que produit le pied du cheval, en frappant sur le sol, dans la marche.
  3. 3
    Type de consonne dont le mode d’articulation est le battement.
  4. 4
    Consonne battue.
  5. 5
    Opération par laquelle, dans les magnaneries, on sépare les fils de soie des cocons.
  6. 6
    Trous que se creusent certains poissons dans la vase ou le sable pour y séjourner l’hiver.
  7. 7
    Mouvement fait avec la main, le pied ou une baguette pour indiquer les temps.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how battue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le directeur de battue, Laurent L., un Lotois de 52 ans, affirme qu’il a bien énoncé les règles, mais « certains n’écout[aient] pas ».
  2. Les gazelles et les outardes ne manquent pas non plus, mais il faudrait organiser des battues pour s’en emparer.

This word in other languages

battue(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • abttue
  • batteu
  • batue
  • batute
  • bbattue
  • btatue

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of battue - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

abttue2batteu2batue1batute2bbattue1btatue2
Edit distance from "battue"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "battue"?
"battue" is spelled B-A-T-T-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ba.ty\.
What does "battue" mean?
As a noun, "battue" means: Action de plusieurs personnes qui battent les bois et les taillis pour en faire sortir le gibier.
What words are commonly confused with "battue"?
"battue" is commonly confused with "botté", "bette", "battus". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "battue"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "battue" is \ba.ty\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "battue" come from?
"battue" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "battue", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

battus#8,342Anvers#8,330chanté#8,353aidera#8,327

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

Bank6 variantsRick6 variantspunk6 variantsgays6 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list