barbant
\baʁ.bɑ̃\
The verdict
“barbant” is uncommon French (frequency #72,944 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,944
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ennuyeux ; inintéressant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-barbant · barbant · French
barbant · rank #72,944 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,944
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bangor
Nearest frequency peer: Bangor (-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 « barbant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- balancées
balancées
27,059 corpus weight
- Bangor
Bangor
27,058 corpus weight
- barbant
barbant
27,057 corpus weight
- Barbizon
Barbizon
27,056 corpus weight
- barbouze
barbouze
27,055 corpus weight
- barbue
barbue
27,054 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « barbant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | barbant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \baʁ.bɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #72,944 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « barbant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
barbant is uncommon French at frequency #72,944 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \baʁ.bɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
barbant doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is barbant, spelled B-A-R-B-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Ennuyeux ; inintéressant.
- 2Gênant ; irritant ; casse-pied.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how barbant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je n’ai pas dépassé les trente premières pages, je trouve ça barbant.
L'a remplacée un petit bonhomme sans un poil sur le caillou, qui m'a bombardée de questions carrément barbantes, comme mes rêves, ma vie sexuelle et j’en passe.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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