Batzen
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6 characters
Language
French
word origin
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Batzen is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ancienne 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 A... Pronounced \ˈbaʦn̩\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Batzen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈbaʦn̩\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Batzen is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈbaʦn̩\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Batzen in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is Batzen, spelled B-A-T-Z-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ancienne 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 du Sud, en Alsace, dans le Palatinat, en Autriche et en Italie du Nord, entre le XVIᵉ siècle et 1850 ^([1]).
- 2Une somme importante, un magot.
- 3un tas
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