barcade
/bɑɹˈkeɪd/noun
barcade is spelled B-A-R-C-A-D-E: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 98 million words in written English, the 317,168th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, barcade means “A bar (drinking establishment) equipped with video arcade games” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of barcade is barcades.
How many letters and syllables are in barcade?
| Letters | 7: B-A-R-C-A-D-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 98 million words; the 317,168th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is barcade?
Barcade appears about once in every 98 million words in written English, the 317,168th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce barcade?
- US /bɑɹˈkeɪd/
Barcade has 2 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-barcade.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with barcade?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as barcade from its last stressed vowel (/eɪd/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of barcade
- barcades plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does barcade mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A bar (drinking establishment) equipped with video arcade games.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does barcade come from?
Blend of bar + arcade. A chain of arcade bars by this name first opened in Brooklyn in 2004.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).