# barrio

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #34,792

## Definitions
1. A municipality or subdivision of a municipality in Spanish America, and in Spain itself.
2. A slum on the periphery of a major city, or a low to middle-class neighborhood in a lesser city, in Venezuela or the Dominican Republic.
3. A rural barangay or neighborhood.
4. An area or neighborhood in a US city inhabited predominantly by Spanish-speakers or people of Hispanic origin.

## Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish barrio, from Arabic بَرِّيّ (barriyy, “wild”).

## Easily confused with
- **Barry** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/barrio-vs-barry)
- **barrow** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/barrio-vs-barrow)
- **Barron** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/barrio-vs-barron)
- **burrito** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/barrio-vs-burrito)
- **Barrios** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/barrio-vs-barrios)
- **barr** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/barr-vs-barrio)
- **bari** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bari-vs-barrio)
- **barre** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/barre-vs-barrio)
- **barra** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/barra-vs-barrio)
- **barrel** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/barrel-vs-barrio)
- **barred** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/barred-vs-barrio)
- **barbie** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/barbie-vs-barrio)
- **barren** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/barren-vs-barrio)
- **Baguio** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/baguio-vs-barrio)
- **barrier** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/barrier-vs-barrio)
- **barring** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/barring-vs-barrio)

## Common misspellings (6)
`abrrio`, `bario`, `bariro`, `barroi`, `bbarrio`, `brario`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/barrio