Which to use
“bare” is an adjective and “bari” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #31,448
- “bare” frequency rank
- #45,154
- “bari” frequency rank
- 76602
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | bare | bari |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Nominativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs bar | Hirte |
Letter map: bare vs bari
Shared letters muted; letters that set bare and bari apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. bare and bari follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Part-of-speech tell for bare / bari
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: bare is anadjective and barianoun. On the page they differ by a single letter - e in “bare” becomes i in “bari”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 76602, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
bare is recorded at frequency rank #31,448, classified as anadj, pronounced [ˈbaːʁə]. bari is at rank #45,154, tagged as anoun, pronounced […].
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 76602, this pair ranks #280,085 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of bare vs bari
Shared letters: abr. Private to "bare": e. Private to "bari": i.
"bare" · 4 letters · shape CVCV · "bari" · 4 letters · shape CVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "bare" for "bari" ever safe?
In ordinary German text, does "bare" or "bari" show up more?
What to do next
You've compared "bare" and "bari". Here's where to go from here.
- Full dictionary entry for "bare" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "bari" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #280,085 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "bare" and "bari" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "bari vs puzzles". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #280,085 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.