barbarisme
\baʁ.ba.ʁism\
The verdict
“barbarisme” is uncommon French (frequency #80,907 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,907
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mot ou forme incorrecte, ou dont le sens est altéré, dévié. → voir impropriété et solécisme
Corpus desk
Index FR-barbarisme · barbarisme · French
barbarisme · rank #80,907 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,907
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH baptist
Nearest frequency peer: baptist (-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 « barbarisme »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bannissant
bannissant
19,097 corpus weight
- baptismale
baptismale
19,096 corpus weight
- baptist
baptist
19,095 corpus weight
- barbarisme
barbarisme
19,094 corpus weight
- barbera
barbera
19,093 corpus weight
- barbiche
barbiche
19,092 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « barbarisme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | barbarisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \baʁ.ba.ʁism\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #80,907 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « barbarisme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
barbarisme is uncommon French at frequency #80,907 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \baʁ.ba.ʁism\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for barbarisme, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is barbarisme, spelled B-A-R-B-A-R-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Mot ou forme incorrecte, ou dont le sens est altéré, dévié. → voir impropriété et solécisme
- 2Faute contre la règle ou le bon goût.
- 3Acte qui relève de la barbarie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how barbarisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si je dis « aRéoport » au lieu d’aéroport, je commets un barbarisme, de même si je prononce « aRborigène » au lieu d’aborigène, ou « diSgression » pour digression. Ces inversions ou ces ajouts de lettres sont, plus précisément, des barbarismes lexicaux ….
Un barbarisme heureux reste dans une langue sans la défigurer ; des solécismes ne s’y établissent jamais sans la détruire.
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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