barbara
\baʁ.ba.ʁa\
The verdict
“barbara” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,662. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,662
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Désigne un syllogisme où les trois propositions sont vraies.
Corpus desk
Index FR-barbara · barbara · French
barbara · rank #7,662 · 10 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,662
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH banquier
Nearest frequency peer: banquier (-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 « barbara »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Auvergne
Auvergne
92,342 corpus weight
- avortement
avortement
92,341 corpus weight
- banquier
banquier
92,340 corpus weight
- barbara
barbara
92,339 corpus weight
- Batman
Batman
92,338 corpus weight
- blesser
blesser
92,337 corpus weight
What this shows « barbara » 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 | barbara |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \baʁ.ba.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #7,662 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « barbara »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around barbara (IPA \baʁ.ba.ʁa\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,662 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Désigne un syllogisme où les trois propositions sont vraies.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for barbara, with forms such as "abrbara", "babrara", and "barabra". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "barra", "barber", "barbare", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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. The correct French form is barbara, spelled B-A-R-B-A-R-A.
Definition
- 1Désigne un syllogisme où les trois propositions sont vraies.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abrbara
- babrara
- barabra
- barbaar
- barbarra
- barbbara
- barbraa
- barrbara
- bbarbara
- brabara
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of barbara - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "barbara", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).