Barrikade
[baʁiˈkaːdə]
The verdict
“Barrikade” is uncommon German (frequency #68,038 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,038
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Schutzwall im Straßenkampf, der aus Gegenständen des alltäglichen Lebens meist improvisiert zusammengestellt wird
Corpus desk
Index DE-barrikade · Barrikade · German
Barrikade · rank #68,038 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,038
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Bane
Nearest frequency peer: Bane (-2 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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Barrikade“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- bagatelle
bagatelle
31,967 corpus weight
- bake
bake
31,966 corpus weight
- Bane
Bane
31,965 corpus weight
- Barrikade
Barrikade
31,963 corpus weight
- beantwortet…
beantworteten
31,960 corpus weight
- Bearbeitung…
Bearbeitungsgebühr
31,959 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Barrikade“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Barrikade |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [baʁiˈkaːdə] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #68,038 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Barrikade“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Barrikade is uncommon German at frequency #68,038 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [baʁiˈkaːdə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Schutzwall im Straßenkampf, der aus Gegenständen des alltäglichen Lebens meist improvisiert zusammengestellt wird".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Barrikade, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Barrikade, spelled B-A-R-R-I-K-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1Schutzwall im Straßenkampf, der aus Gegenständen des alltäglichen Lebens meist improvisiert zusammengestellt wird
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Barrikade appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Manche Politiker sterben auf Barrikaden, auf denen sie gar nicht gestanden sind.“ (François Mitterrand)
Die Soldaten errichteten eine Barrikade, um den Nachschublastern den Weg zu verbauen.
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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