barbeque
"barbeque" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“barbeque” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #41,523. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,523
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative spelling of barbecue (“apparatus for grilling; cookout (event); meat cooked by barbecuing”).
Corpus desk
Index EN-barbeque · barbeque · English
barbeque · rank #41,523 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,523
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH bards
Nearest frequency peer: bards (+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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “barbeque”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- bacillus
bacillus
58,481 corpus weight
- balmy
balmy
58,480 corpus weight
- barbeque
barbeque
58,478 corpus weight
- bards
bards
58,477 corpus weight
- bayside
bayside
58,476 corpus weight
- bento
bento
58,475 corpus weight
What this shows “barbeque” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | barbeque |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #41,523 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “barbeque”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around barbeque, anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,523 among 4,121 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Alternative spelling of barbecue (“apparatus for grilling; cookout (event); meat cooked by barbecuing”).".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for barbeque, with forms such as "abrbeque", "babreque", and "barbbeque". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Baroque", "barbecue", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is barbeque, spelled B-A-R-B-E-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Alternative spelling of barbecue (“apparatus for grilling; cookout (event); meat cooked by barbecuing”).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how barbeque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
She dipped her finger in a steaming portable spa and inhaled the heavenly scent of fair food, from slow-roasted barbeque beef sandwiches at the Young Life booth to Bavarian bratwurst at the Mount Baker Barbershop Singers’ grill.
‘This will be slaughtered for barbeque meat and beef stew on Sunday.’
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abrbeque
- babreque
- barbbeque
- barbeqeu
- barbeqque
- barbeuqe
- barbqeue
- barebque
- barrbeque
- bbarbeque
- brabeque
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of barbeque - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "barbeque", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).