barbarity
/bɑː(ɹ)ˈbæɹɪti/
"barbarity" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“barbarity” is uncommon English (frequency #55,939 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,939
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The state of being barbarous; brutality
Corpus desk
Index EN-barbarity · barbarity · English
barbarity · rank #55,939 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,939
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH bapu
Nearest frequency peer: bapu (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “barbarity”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- backgammon
backgammon
44,067 corpus weight
- bapu
bapu
44,063 corpus weight
- barbarity
barbarity
44,062 corpus weight
- basta
basta
44,058 corpus weight
- begone
begone
44,055 corpus weight
- belie
belie
44,054 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “barbarity” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | barbarity |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bɑː(ɹ)ˈbæɹɪti/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #55,939 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “barbarity” in English
Rare enough to double-check
barbarity is uncommon English at frequency #55,939 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /bɑː(ɹ)ˈbæɹɪti/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for barbarity, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is barbarity, spelled B-A-R-B-A-R-I-T-Y.
Definition
- 1The state of being barbarous; brutality
- 2A barbaric act
- 3crudity
- 4A crude act
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how barbarity appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
As regards barbarities committed by the Japanese army since our war of resistance, the fall of Nanking in December 1937 is a case in point. Over 200,000 civilians were massacred within one week.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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