barbaresques
\baʁ.ba.ʁɛsk\
The verdict
“barbaresques” is uncommon French (frequency #57,777 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,777
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de barbaresque.
Corpus desk
Index FR-barbaresques · barbaresques · French
barbaresques · rank #57,777 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,777
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bamberg
Nearest frequency peer: Bamberg (-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 « barbaresques »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Auxois
Auxois
42,228 corpus weight
- baladais
baladais
42,226 corpus weight
- Bamberg
Bamberg
42,225 corpus weight
- barbaresques
barbaresques
42,224 corpus weight
- battront
battront
42,222 corpus weight
- baudrier
baudrier
42,221 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « barbaresques » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | barbaresques |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \baʁ.ba.ʁɛsk\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #57,777 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « barbaresques » en français
Rare enough to double-check
barbaresques is uncommon French at frequency #57,777 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \baʁ.ba.ʁɛsk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de barbaresque.".
No misspelling variants are generated for barbaresques in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is barbaresques, spelled B-A-R-B-A-R-E-S-Q-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de barbaresque.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how barbaresques appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les États-Unis ont, dès l’an 1795, signé un traité de paix et d’amitié avec les États barbaresques qui leur donnaient des avantages incomparablement plus grands que ceux que leur offrait l’ordre de Malte qui voulait lui aussi traiter avec eux.
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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