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barcamp

noun

barcamp is spelled B-A-R-C-A-M-P: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 182,517th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, barcamp means “Alternative letter-case form of BarCamp” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of barcamp is barcamps.

How many letters and syllables are in barcamp?

Letters7: B-A-R-C-A-M-P
In writingabout once in every 35 million words; the 182,517th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is barcamp?

Barcamp appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 182,517th 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).

Forms of barcamp

  • barcamps plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does barcamp mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative letter-case form of BarCamp.

noun

as BarCamp
  1. 1

    A form of user-generated conference (or unconference) originally focused on technology and the web.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does barcamp come from?

From bar + camp, created as an alternative to Foo Camp.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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