barre
/bɑː/
"barre" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“barre” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #26,008) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #26,008
- 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 handrail fixed to a wall used for ballet exercises.
Corpus desk
Index EN-barre · barre · English
barre · rank #26,008 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,008
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH automate
Nearest frequency peer: automate (-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 “barre”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- Arcadia
Arcadia
73,997 corpus weight
- archdiocese
archdiocese
73,996 corpus weight
- automate
automate
73,994 corpus weight
- barre
barre
73,993 corpus weight
- basilica
basilica
73,992 corpus weight
- Bassett
Bassett
73,991 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “barre” 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 | barre |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bɑː/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #26,008 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “barre”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for barre is neighbouring look-alikes ("base", "bars", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /bɑː/. Frequency #26,008 among 4,121 “B” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for barre, with forms such as "abrre", "barer", and "bbarre". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "base", "bars", "bore", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French barre. Doublet of bar. The correct English form is barre, spelled B-A-R-R-E.
Definition
- 1A handrail fixed to a wall used for ballet exercises.
- 2Ellipsis of barre chord.
Etymology
Borrowed from French barre. Doublet of bar.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abrre
- barer
- bbarre
- brare
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of barre - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).