barrelled
"barrelled" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“barrelled” is uncommon English (frequency #65,717 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,717
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having a barrel or specified number of barrels.
Corpus desk
Index EN-barrelled · barrelled · English
barrelled · rank #65,717 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,717
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH barest
Nearest frequency peer: barest (-2 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 “barrelled”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- banca
banca
34,288 corpus weight
- banqueting
banqueting
34,287 corpus weight
- barest
barest
34,286 corpus weight
- barrelled
barrelled
34,284 corpus weight
- beano
beano
34,281 corpus weight
- Beelzebub
Beelzebub
34,279 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “barrelled” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | barrelled |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #65,717 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “barrelled” in English
Rare enough to double-check
barrelled is uncommon English at frequency #65,717 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for barrelled in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is barrelled, spelled B-A-R-R-E-L-L-E-D.
Definition
- 1Having a barrel or specified number of barrels.
- 2Packed in a barrel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how barrelled appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
a barrelled action
a double-barrelled shotgun
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).