barak

/\ba.ʁak\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#46,018

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

barak is aFrenchnoun. It means: Synonyme de chien courant de Bosnie à poil dur (race de chien). Pronounced \ba.ʁak\. Often confused with bra and bras.

Key facts for barak
PropertyValue
Headwordbarak
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ba.ʁak\
Letters5
Frequency rank#46,018
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of barak in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for barak is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ba.ʁak\. Corpus data places it at rank #46,018 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Synonyme de chien courant de Bosnie à poil dur (race de chien).".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for barak, with forms such as "abrak", "baark", and "barakk". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bra", "bras", "bars", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is barak, spelled B-A-R-A-K, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Synonyme de chien courant de Bosnie à poil dur (race de chien).

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: abrak,baark,barakk,barka,barrak,bbarak,braak

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for barak

Misspelling Variants of "barak"

abrak5baark5barakk6barka5barrak6bbarak6braak5
Misspelling Variants of "barak"

Frequency rank: #46,018 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "barak"?
"barak" is spelled B-A-R-A-K. The IPA pronunciation is \ba.ʁak\.
What does "barak" mean?
As a noun, "barak" means: Synonyme de chien courant de Bosnie à poil dur (race de chien).
What words are commonly confused with "barak"?
"barak" is commonly confused with "bra", "bras", "bars". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "barak"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "barak" is \ba.ʁak\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "barak" come from?
"barak" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.