BATTENS

"BATTENS" is a plural of: batten.

Date "BATTENS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references)

Domain	Definition
Economics	1.The protruding fixtures on the inside walls of a vessel's hold which are used to keep the cargo away or to fasten it in place. 2. Similar structural parts to the above in truck bodies, containers and rail cars. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crosswords: BATTENS

English words defined with "BATTENS": batten, Batten door, batten down ♦ secure ♦ To batten down, To batten down the hatches. (references)

Specialty definitions using "BATTENS": end operator, END STAPLER ♦ JOINER HELPER ♦ PALLETIZER ♦ Skids. (references)

"BATTENS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 94.12% of the time. "BATTENS" is used about 85 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (plural)	94.12%	80	37,112
Lexical Verb (-s form)	5.88%	5	157,705
Total	100.00%	85	N/A

Language		Translations for "BATTENS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		dërrasë dyshemeje. (various references)

German		gedeiht (thrives). (various references)

Hungarian		világítótábla. (various references)

Pig Latin		attensbay

Russian		тес. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"BATTENS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: baddens, batatas, baten, Battant, battels, Bertens, buttans, ratteens. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-e-n-s-t-t"
	-1 letter: absent, batten, bettas.
	-2 letters: abets, antes, banes, baste, bates, batts, beans, beast, beats, bents, betas, betta, etnas, nabes, nates, neats, netts, stane, state, tabes, taste, tates, teats, tents, testa.
	-3 letters: abet, anes, ante, ants, ates, bane, bans, base, bast, bate, bats, batt, bean, beat, bens, bent, best, beta, bets, east, eats, etas, etna.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-e-n-s-t-t"
	+2 letters: abetments, abstinent, abutments, batteners, battiness, betatrons, blastment, debutants, intubates, obstinate, stoneboat, subtenant.
	+3 letters: abatements, abstention, banquettes, bassetting, battements, blastments, brattiness, debutantes, stoneboats, subtenants, tribunates, turbinates, turntables, unstablest, untestable.
	+4 letters: abstentions, abstentious, abstinently, antiobesity, bannerettes, battinesses, battlements, blanquettes, contestable, debatements, geobotanist, hebetations, obstinately, obtainments, snakebitten, stenobathic, substantive, trabeations.
	+5 letters: abstractness, arbitraments, battlefronts, battlewagons, bespattering, botherations, brattinesses, contrastable, counterblast, entablatures, geobotanists, jettisonable, notabilities, obstetrician, rattlebrains, scatterbrain, stablishment, subdebutante, substantiate, substantives, tenabilities, translatable, transmutable, tunabilities.
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