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barrage

bar·rage/bəˈɹɑʒ/noun, verb

barrage is spelled B-A-R-R-A-G-E, 2 syllables: bar·rage. The wrong spelling people search most is barage: about 180 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Barrage is a noun meaning “An artificial obstruction, such as a dam, in a river designed to increase its depth or to divert its flow”. The plural of barrage is barrages.

How many letters and syllables are in barrage?

Letters7: B-A-R-R-A-G-E
Syllables2: bar·rage
In writing2.5 times per million words; the 17,342nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, barage, about 180 Bing searches a month (all of them)
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How do you spell barrage?

Barrage is spelled B-A-R-R-A-G-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for barrage in either form.

barragethe right spelling1,520 searches a month
baragea missing r180 searches a month

Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.

How common is barrage?

Barrage appears 2.5 times per million words in written English, the 17,342nd 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 barrage?

  • UK /ˈbæɹɑːʒ/
  • US /bəˈɹɑʒ/
  • /ˈbæɹɑːdʒ/

Barrage has 2 syllables, split bar·rage in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-barrage.wav, En-us-barrage.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Simplificationalizer-barrage.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with barrage?

9 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as barrage from its last stressed vowel (/ɑʒ/):

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 barrage

  • barrages plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • barraging participle, present
  • barraged participle, past

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

What does barrage mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    An artificial obstruction, such as a dam, in a river designed to increase its depth or to divert its flow.

  2. 2

    A heavy curtain of artillery fire directed in front of one's own troops to screen and protect them.

  3. 3

    A concentrated discharge of projectile weapons.

  4. 4

    An overwhelming outburst of words, especially of criticism.

  5. 5

    A "next hit wins" contest to determine the winner of a bout in case of a tie.

  6. 6

    Type of firework containing a mixture of firework types in one single-ignition package.

verb

  1. 1

    To direct a barrage at.

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

Barrage in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchbarrage (artificial obstruction, such as a dam, in a…), tir de barrage (heavy curtain of artillery fire)
GermanStauwehr (artificial obstruction, such as a dam, in a…), Sperrfeuer (heavy curtain of artillery fire)
Portuguesebarragem (artificial obstruction, such as a dam, in a…), rajada (concentrated discharge of projectile weapons)
Spanishpresa, represa (artificial obstruction, such as a dam, in a…), bombardeo, cortina de fuego, barrera de fuego, andanada (heavy curtain of artillery fire)

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.

Where does barrage come from?

Unadapted borrowing from French barrage (“barrage, barrier”) c. 1859. Compare barrier.

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

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