batz
\bats\
The verdict
“batz” is uncommon French (frequency #57,101 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,101
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Unité monétaire créée à Berne en 1492 (mais pas sous ce nom), puis utilisée surtout en Suisse occidentale (Berne, Soleure, Fribourg), mais aussi dans l'ensemble de la Suisse actuelle, en Allemagne ...
Corpus desk
Index FR-batz · batz · French
batz · rank #57,101 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,101
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH baroudeur
Nearest frequency peer: baroudeur (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « batz »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- barbet
barbet
42,903 corpus weight
- barbouzes
barbouzes
42,902 corpus weight
- baroudeur
baroudeur
42,901 corpus weight
- batz
batz
42,900 corpus weight
- bayonnais
bayonnais
42,898 corpus weight
- Bayreuth
Bayreuth
42,897 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « batz » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | batz |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bats\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #57,101 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « batz » en français
Rare enough to double-check
batz is uncommon French at frequency #57,101 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bats\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for batz, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is batz, spelled B-A-T-Z.
Definition
- 1Unité monétaire créée à Berne en 1492 (mais pas sous ce nom), puis utilisée surtout en Suisse occidentale (Berne, Soleure, Fribourg), mais aussi dans l'ensemble de la Suisse actuelle, en Allemagne du Sud, en Alsace, dans le Palatinat, en Autriche et en Italie du Nord, entre le XVIᵉ siècle et 1850.
- 2Pièce de billon de la valeur d'un batz.
This word in other languages
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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