barbecue
\baʁ.bə.kju\
The verdict
“barbecue” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,608. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,608
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gril de plein air.
Corpus desk
Index FR-barbecue · barbecue · French
barbecue · rank #9,608 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,608
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH aéroports
Nearest frequency peer: aéroports (-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 « barbecue »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- assurément
assurément
90,397 corpus weight
- attendaient
attendaient
90,395 corpus weight
- aéroports
aéroports
90,394 corpus weight
- barbecue
barbecue
90,393 corpus weight
- BFM
BFM
90,392 corpus weight
- bleues
bleues
90,390 corpus weight
What this shows « barbecue » 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 | barbecue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \baʁ.bə.kju\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #9,608 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « barbecue »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around barbecue (IPA \baʁ.bə.kju\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,608 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 barbecue, with forms such as "abrbecue", "babrecue", and "barbbecue". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "barbecues", "BBQ", "barbeau", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 barbecue, spelled B-A-R-B-E-C-U-E.
Definition
- 1Gril de plein air.
- 2Repas à base de grillades.
- 3Radar portable MESTA 206, le premier modèle de radar utilisé en France, depuis le début des années 1980, par les forces de l’ordre, pour contrôler la vitesse des automobilistes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how barbecue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je ne compte plus la « tétrachiée » de sites internet spécialisés en la matière, d'articles ou de livres que j'avais assidûment parcourus puis utilisés comme torchère pour allumer mon barbecue.
Refermez soigneusement les papillotes. Faites-les cuire doucement au barbecue 20 à 25 minutes.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abrbecue
- babrecue
- barbbecue
- barbceue
- barbeccue
- barbeceu
- barbeuce
- barebcue
- barrbecue
- bbarbecue
- brabecue
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of barbecue - 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 "barbecue", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).