barra
"barra" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“barra” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #33,142) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #33,142
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A barrow; a hand-pushed cart of the type commonly used in markets.
Corpus desk
Index EN-barra · barra · English
barra · rank #33,142 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,142
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH barcode
Nearest frequency peer: barcode (-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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “barra”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- Bala
Bala
66,862 corpus weight
- Balmain
Balmain
66,861 corpus weight
- barcode
barcode
66,860 corpus weight
- barra
barra
66,859 corpus weight
- bearable
bearable
66,858 corpus weight
- beehive
beehive
66,857 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “barra” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
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 | barra |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #33,142 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “barra”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for barra is neighbouring look-alikes ("bra", "bars", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #33,142 among 4,121 “B” headwords. Gloss: "A barrow; a hand-pushed cart of the type commonly used in markets.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for barra, with forms such as "abrra", "barar", and "bbarra". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bra", "bars", "Bart", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Variant forms. The correct English form is barra, spelled B-A-R-R-A.
Definition
- 1A barrow; a hand-pushed cart of the type commonly used in markets.
Etymology
Variant forms.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abrra
- barar
- bbarra
- brara
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of barra - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "barra", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).