épée bâtarde
\e.pe bɑ.taʁd\
The verdict
“épée bâtarde” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Épée à lame plate du Moyen Âge que l'on peut tenir à une ou deux mains.
Corpus desk
Index FR-epee-batarde · épée bâtarde · French
épée bâtarde · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "É" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | épée bâtarde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.pe bɑ.taʁd\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
épée bâtarde is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.pe bɑ.taʁd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Épée à lame plate du Moyen Âge que l'on peut tenir à une ou deux mains.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for épée bâtarde in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is épée bâtarde, spelled É-P-É-E- -B-Â-T-A-R-D-E.
Definition
- 1Épée à lame plate du Moyen Âge que l'on peut tenir à une ou deux mains.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.