rebattu
\ʁə.ba.ty\
The verdict
“rebattu” is uncommon French (frequency #86,097 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,097
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Usé, banal, trop entendu, cliché, se dit d’un lieu commun.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rebattu · rebattu · French
rebattu · rank #86,097 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,097
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH received
Nearest frequency peer: received (+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 « rebattu »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Rayan
Rayan
13,908 corpus weight
- rayez
rayez
13,907 corpus weight
- rebattu
rebattu
13,904 corpus weight
- received
received
13,903 corpus weight
- rechargent
rechargent
13,902 corpus weight
- recollé
recollé
13,901 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rebattu » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rebattu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁə.ba.ty\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #86,097 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rebattu » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rebattu is uncommon French at frequency #86,097 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʁə.ba.ty\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
rebattu has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is rebattu, spelled R-E-B-A-T-T-U.
Definition
- 1Usé, banal, trop entendu, cliché, se dit d’un lieu commun.
- 2Qui présente un rebattement, la répétition de partitions simples ou de pièces simples.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rebattu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Son discours, plein d’idées rebattues, n’était qu’une mauvaise amplification.
Le chef d’orchestre a fait une relecture magistrale de partitions assez rebattues, dont la polyphonie est comme « dépliée » par le passage à l’interprétation collective.
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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