lait battu
The verdict
“lait battu” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Babeurre, « battu » durant le barattage, lait fermenté.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lait battu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lait battu” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
lait battu is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Babeurre, « battu » durant le barattage, lait fermenté.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for lait battu in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is lait battu, spelled L-A-I-T- -B-A-T-T-U.
Definition
- 1Babeurre, « battu » durant le barattage, lait fermenté.
Synonyms
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.
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Using “lait battu”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is L-A-I-T- -B-A-T-T-U - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.