batten

Other forms of batten

plural

battens·

past tense

battenned·

present participle

battenning·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about batten

What does batten mean?

batten means "stuffing made of rolls or sheets of cotton wool or synthetic fiber". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in batten?

batten has 2 syllables: bat-ten. The stress falls on "bat". In IPA it is /ˈbætən/.

What is another word for batten?

Close synonyms include batting, batten down, secure. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is batten a common word?

batten is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.