Barbour
"barbour" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Barbour” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #27,374. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,374
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname.
Corpus desk
Index EN-barbour · Barbour · English
Barbour · rank #27,374 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,374
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Bastille
Nearest frequency peer: Bastille (+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 “Barbour”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- ATA
ATA
72,632 corpus weight
- Atwood
Atwood
72,631 corpus weight
- Barbour
Barbour
72,627 corpus weight
- Bastille
Bastille
72,626 corpus weight
- belligerent
belligerent
72,625 corpus weight
- bleaching
bleaching
72,622 corpus weight
What this shows “Barbour” 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 | Barbour |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #27,374 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Barbour”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Barbour, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #27,374 among 4,121 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Barbour, with forms such as "abrbour", "babrour", and "barbbour". 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, "barber", "Balfour", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Old French barbour; name was given to a barber. The correct English form is Barbour, spelled B-A-R-B-O-U-R.
Definition
- 1A surname.
- 2Ellipsis of Barbour County.
Etymology
From Old French barbour; name was given to a barber.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abrbour
- babrour
- barbbour
- barboru
- barbourr
- barbuor
- barobur
- barrbour
- bbarbour
- brabour
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Barbour - 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 "Barbour", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).