barbelé
\baʁ.bə.le\
The verdict
“barbelé” is uncommon French (frequency #59,815 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,815
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Garni de pointes en forme de barbes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-barbele · barbelé · French
barbelé · rank #59,815 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,815
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH baroud
Nearest frequency peer: baroud (+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 « barbelé »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- babyfoot
babyfoot
40,190 corpus weight
- badin
badin
40,189 corpus weight
- barbelé
barbelé
40,186 corpus weight
- baroud
baroud
40,185 corpus weight
- barrées
barrées
40,184 corpus weight
- Bassano
Bassano
40,182 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « barbelé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | barbelé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \baʁ.bə.le\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #59,815 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « barbelé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
barbelé is uncommon French at frequency #59,815 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \baʁ.bə.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for barbelé, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is barbelé, spelled B-A-R-B-E-L-É.
Definition
- 1Garni de pointes en forme de barbes.
- 2Qui a l’aspect d’un fil de fer barbelé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how barbelé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À genoux, j’avançai vers une paillasse tout contre le mur. J’essayai de m’étendre sur le ventre, mais elle était couturée de toutes parts de fil de fer barbelé.
Flèches barbelées.
Synonyms
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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