barquentine
noun
barquentine is a noun meaning “A sailing vessel similar to a barque, but fore-and-aft (schooner) rigged on the mainmast” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled B-A-R-Q-U-E-N-T-I-N-E, and it appears about once in every 87 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of barquentine is barquentines.
What does barquentine mean?
noun
- 1
A sailing vessel similar to a barque, but fore-and-aft (schooner) rigged on the mainmast
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of barquentine
- barquentines plural
- barkentine
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is barquentine?
Barquentine appears about once in every 87 million words in written English, the 297,763rd 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).
Barquentine in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense sailing vessel:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Barkentine, Schonerbark |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.