barbares
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#10,999
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
barbares is anFrenchadj. It means: Pluriel de barbare. Pronounced \baʁ.baʁ\. Often confused with barres and barrages.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | barbares |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \baʁ.baʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #10,999 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for barbares is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \baʁ.baʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #10,999 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pluriel de barbare.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for barbares, with forms such as "abrbares", "babrares", and "barabres". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "barres", "barrages", "barbarie", 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 barbares, spelled B-A-R-B-A-R-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de barbare.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abrbares,babrares,barabres,barbaers,barbaress,barbarres,barbarse,barbbares,barbraes,barrbares,bbarbares,brabares
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "barbares"
Frequency rank: #10,999 in French
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