baris
/ˈbæɹɪs/
"baris" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“baris” is uncommon English (frequency #94,565 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,565
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A type of flat-bottomed freighter used on the Nile in Ancient Egypt, powered either by sail, or by being towed by a downstream raft driven by the current, while dragging a stone anchor to keep the ...
Corpus desk
Index EN-baris · baris · English
baris · rank #94,565 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,565
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Bardstown
Nearest frequency peer: Bardstown (-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 “baris”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Balogun
Balogun
5,440 corpus weight
- Bardstown
Bardstown
5,437 corpus weight
- baris
baris
5,436 corpus weight
- barkeep
barkeep
5,435 corpus weight
- basest
basest
5,434 corpus weight
- Basheer
Basheer
5,433 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “baris” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baris |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbæɹɪs/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #94,565 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “baris” in English
Rare enough to double-check
baris is uncommon English at frequency #94,565 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈbæɹɪs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A type of flat-bottomed freighter used on the Nile in Ancient Egypt, powered either by sail, or by being towed by a downstream raft driven by the current, while dragging a stone anchor to keep the ...".
No misspelling variants are generated for baris in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek βᾶρις (bâris), from Coptic ⲃⲁⲁⲣⲉ (baare), from Demotic Egyptian br, from Egyptian bꜣjr b-bA-A-y:r*Z1-P1 Doublet of barge, bark and barque. The correct English form is baris, spelled B-A-R-I-S.
Definition
- 1A type of flat-bottomed freighter used on the Nile in Ancient Egypt, powered either by sail, or by being towed by a downstream raft driven by the current, while dragging a stone anchor to keep the course steady.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek βᾶρις (bâris), from Coptic ⲃⲁⲁⲣⲉ (baare), from Demotic Egyptian br, from Egyptian bꜣjr b-bA-A-y:r*Z1-P1 Doublet of barge, bark and barque.
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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