barbarie
\baʁ.ba.ʁi\
The verdict
“barbarie” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,915. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,915
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Manque de civilisation, ignorance des arts, des lettres et des sciences chez un peuple, souvent étranger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-barbarie · barbarie · French
barbarie · rank #11,915 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,915
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH attrait
Nearest frequency peer: attrait (-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 « barbarie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Arles
Arles
88,089 corpus weight
- arrivez
arrivez
88,088 corpus weight
- attrait
attrait
88,087 corpus weight
- barbarie
barbarie
88,086 corpus weight
- basilique
basilique
88,085 corpus weight
- biscuits
biscuits
88,084 corpus weight
What this shows « barbarie » 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 | barbarie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \baʁ.ba.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #11,915 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « barbarie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around barbarie (IPA \baʁ.ba.ʁi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,915 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for barbarie, with forms such as "abrbarie", "babrarie", and "barabrie". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Barbie", "barbara", "barbare", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is barbarie, spelled B-A-R-B-A-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Manque de civilisation, ignorance des arts, des lettres et des sciences chez un peuple, souvent étranger.
- 2Cruauté, inhumanité.
- 3Acte barbare.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how barbarie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La prévention du pays, jointe à l’orgueil de la nation, nous fait oublier que la raison est de tous les climats, et que l’on pense juste partout où il y a des hommes. Nous n’aimerions pas à être traités ainsi de ceux que nous appelons barbares ; et s’il y a en nous quelque barbarie, elle consiste à être épouvantés de voir d’autres peuples raisonner comme…
Mais il était poète aussi, et la poésie, à cette époque d’absolutisme et de barbarie, était chose dangereuse lorsqu’on avait l’esprit aussi caustique que Thierrat.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abrbarie
- babrarie
- barabrie
- barbaire
- barbarei
- barbarrie
- barbbarie
- barbraie
- barrbarie
- bbarbarie
- brabarie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of barbarie - 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
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).