barroom
"barroom" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“barroom” is uncommon English (frequency #77,444 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,444
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A room where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
Corpus desk
Index EN-barroom · barroom · English
barroom · rank #77,444 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,444
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH barras
Nearest frequency peer: barras (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “barroom”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Ballston
Ballston
22,562 corpus weight
- barras
barras
22,558 corpus weight
- barroom
barroom
22,557 corpus weight
- beaucoup
beaucoup
22,552 corpus weight
- bedbug
bedbug
22,551 corpus weight
- Behan
Behan
22,550 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “barroom” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | barroom |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #77,444 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “barroom” in English
Rare enough to double-check
barroom is uncommon English at frequency #77,444 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A room where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for barroom in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: From bar + room. The correct English form is barroom, spelled B-A-R-R-O-O-M.
Definition
- 1A room where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how barroom appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sporting a woolly cardigan with four buttons on top of an Oxford smock without a collar, our man has a faintly folksy look about him, calling to mind a zingaro or a gypsy, a carny or a Mongol, but also (switching to a wholly distinct mythology and iconography) a hippy strumming his guitar in a barroom in Haight-Ashbury or at Big Sur or in Katmandu.
Etymology
From bar + room.
This word in other languages
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).