batz
\bats\
The verdict
“batz” is uncommon French (frequency #57,101 among 227,490 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,101
- frequency rank, French
- 227,490
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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 ...
| 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) |
Where “batz” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
batz is uncommon French at frequency #57,101 among 227,490 “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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Using “batz”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-A-T-Z - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \bats\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.