battue
\ba.ty\
The verdict
“battue” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #8,341 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #8,341
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Action de plusieurs personnes qui battent les bois et les taillis pour en faire sortir le gibier.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | battue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.ty\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #8,341 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “battue” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for battue is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ba.ty\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,341 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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
- 1Action de plusieurs personnes qui battent les bois et les taillis pour en faire sortir le gibier.
- 2Bruit que produit le pied du cheval, en frappant sur le sol, dans la marche.
- 3Type de consonne dont le mode d’articulation est le battement.
- 4Consonne battue.
- 5Opération par laquelle, dans les magnaneries, on sépare les fils de soie des cocons.
- 6Trous que se creusent certains poissons dans la vase ou le sable pour y séjourner l’hiver.
- 7Mouvement fait avec la main, le pied ou une baguette pour indiquer les temps.
This word in other languages
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.
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.
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Using “battue”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-A-T-T-U-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ba.ty\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “botté” - see the side-by-side comparison. battue vs botté
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.