barbecued
"barbecued" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“barbecued” is uncommon English (frequency #55,260 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,260
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cooked on a barbecue.
Corpus desk
Index EN-barbecued · barbecued · English
barbecued · rank #55,260 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,260
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH bambino
Nearest frequency peer: bambino (-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 “barbecued”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Bahasa
Bahasa
44,744 corpus weight
- Baileys
Baileys
44,743 corpus weight
- bambino
bambino
44,742 corpus weight
- barbecued
barbecued
44,741 corpus weight
- bartering
bartering
44,739 corpus weight
- Bartolo
Bartolo
44,738 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “barbecued” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | barbecued |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #55,260 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “barbecued” in English
Rare enough to double-check
barbecued is uncommon English at frequency #55,260 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cooked on a barbecue.".
Zero misspellings are on record for barbecued in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 barbecued, spelled B-A-R-B-E-C-U-E-D.
Definition
- 1Cooked on a barbecue.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how barbecued appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On recollecting myself, I diſcovered that I had almoſt reached the entrance of the lagoon, and determined to venture in, if poſſible, to take a few fiſh, […] I ſoon caught more trout than I had preſent occaſion for, and the air was too hot and ſultry to admit of their being kept for many hours, even though ſalted or barbecued.
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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