Barabbas
\ba.ʁa.bas\
The verdict
“Barabbas” is uncommon French (frequency #88,364 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,364
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Meurtrier juif à qui Pilate donna la liberté plutôt qu'à Jésus.
Corpus desk
Index FR-barabbas · Barabbas · French
Barabbas · rank #88,364 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,364
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bannissez
Nearest frequency peer: bannissez (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Barabbas »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- balayent
balayent
11,641 corpus weight
- banne
banne
11,639 corpus weight
- bannissez
bannissez
11,638 corpus weight
- Barabbas
Barabbas
11,637 corpus weight
- bariolé
bariolé
11,634 corpus weight
- basanés
basanés
11,633 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Barabbas » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Barabbas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ba.ʁa.bas\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #88,364 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Barabbas » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Barabbas is uncommon French at frequency #88,364 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ba.ʁa.bas\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Meurtrier juif à qui Pilate donna la liberté plutôt qu'à Jésus.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Barabbas, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Barabbas, spelled B-A-R-A-B-B-A-S.
Definition
- 1Meurtrier juif à qui Pilate donna la liberté plutôt qu'à Jésus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Barabbas appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y avait en prison un nommé Barabbas avec ses complices, pour un meurtre qu’ils avaient commis dans une sédition. La foule, étant montée, se mit à demander ce qu’il avait coutume de leur accorder. Pilate leur répondit : Voulez-vous que je vous relâche le roi des Juifs ? Car il savait que c’était par envie que les principaux sacrificateurs l’avaient livr…
Ils regardaient Yéchoua, écroulé, tête basse, en sang, puis Barabbas, bien planté de manière arrogante sur ses jambes fortes, tout en muscles et peau brune, qui les défiait crânement.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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