barbecues
\baʁ.bə.kju\
The verdict
“barbecues” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,392. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,392
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de barbecue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-barbecues · barbecues · French
barbecues · rank #35,392 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,392
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bancal
Nearest frequency peer: bancal (-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 « barbecues »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- avancera
avancera
64,613 corpus weight
- bancal
bancal
64,610 corpus weight
- barbecues
barbecues
64,609 corpus weight
- Bathurst
Bathurst
64,608 corpus weight
- batista
batista
64,607 corpus weight
- Bergson
Bergson
64,605 corpus weight
What this shows « barbecues » 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 | barbecues |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \baʁ.bə.kju\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #35,392 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « barbecues »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around barbecues (IPA \baʁ.bə.kju\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,392 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de barbecue.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for barbecues, with forms such as "abrbecues", "babrecues", and "barbbecues". 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, "barbelés", "BBQ", "barbecue", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 barbecues, spelled B-A-R-B-E-C-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de barbecue.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how barbecues appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Par moments, la fumée des barbecues installés au bord de l’eau s’étalait sur la foule, épaisse comme un brouillard, et les pseudo-squelettes semblaient, dans ces vapeurs de graillons, s’agiter dans les tourments de l’enfer.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abrbecues
- babrecues
- barbbecues
- barbceues
- barbeccues
- barbeceus
- barbecuess
- barbecuse
- barbeuces
- barebcues
- barrbecues
- bbarbecues
- brabecues
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of barbecues - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).