baraka
\ba.ʁa.ka\
The verdict
“baraka” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #45,464. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,464
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bénédiction ou protection divine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-baraka · baraka · French
baraka · rank #45,464 · 8 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,464
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH balèze
Nearest frequency peer: balèze (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « baraka »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- balayée
balayée
54,540 corpus weight
- Balthasar
Balthasar
54,539 corpus weight
- balèze
balèze
54,538 corpus weight
- baraka
baraka
54,537 corpus weight
- Barbey
Barbey
54,536 corpus weight
- barges
barges
54,535 corpus weight
What this shows « baraka » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baraka |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.ʁa.ka\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #45,464 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « baraka »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around baraka (IPA \ba.ʁa.ka\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #45,464 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for baraka, with forms such as "abraka", "baarka", and "baraak". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "barra", "barca", "Braga", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is baraka, spelled B-A-R-A-K-A.
Definition
- 1Bénédiction ou protection divine.
- 2Chance ; veine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how baraka appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] à l'ombre bienfaisante du mausolée du grand saint Moulay Idris enterré au cœur même de la cité qu'il a fondée et qu'il protège toujours en étendant sur elle sa bénédiction, sa baraka toute puissante.
Nul homme n'a possédé plus de baraka que le prophète Mahomet. Sa baraka fut transmise aux chérifs et aux chérifas, c'est-à-dire aux descendants en ligne directe, masculins et féminins, de sa fille Fatimah.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abraka
- baarka
- baraak
- barakka
- barkaa
- barraka
- bbaraka
- braaka
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of baraka - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).