barbelés

\baʁ.bə.le\

/\baʁ.bə.le\/ adj

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The verdict

“barbelés” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,067. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#28,067
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de barbelé.

Corpus desk

Index FR-barbeles · barbelés · French

barbelés · rank #28,067 · 13 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #28,067
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH bagne

Nearest frequency peer: bagne (-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 « barbelés »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « barbelés » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

barbelés vs barèmes
50% similar
barbelés vs berbères
50% similar
barbelés vs barbares
63% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for barbelés
PropertyValue
Headwordbarbelés
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\baʁ.bə.le\
Letters8
Frequency rank#28,067
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « barbelés »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).barbelésse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « bagne » (#28,066), « Barcelona » (#28,068), « aya » (#28,065). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « barbelés » est au #28,067. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around barbelés (IPA \baʁ.bə.le\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #28,067 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de barbelé.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for barbelés, with forms such as "abrbelés", "babrelés", and "barbbelés". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "barèmes", "berbères", "barbares", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is barbelés, spelled B-A-R-B-E-L-É-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Masculin pluriel de barbelé.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • abrbelés
  • babrelés
  • barbbelés
  • barbeles
  • barbellés
  • barbelsé
  • barbeléss
  • barbeéls
  • barbleés
  • bareblés
  • barrbelés
  • bbarbelés
  • brabelés

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of barbelés - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

abrbelés2babrelés2barbbelés1barbeles1barbellés1barbelsé2barbeléss1barbeéls2
Edit distance from "barbelés"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "barbelés"?
"barbelés" is spelled B-A-R-B-E-L-É-S. The IPA pronunciation is \baʁ.bə.le\.
What does "barbelés" mean?
As an adjective, "barbelés" means: Masculin pluriel de barbelé.
What words are commonly confused with "barbelés"?
"barbelés" is commonly confused with "barèmes", "berbères", "barbares". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "barbelés"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "barbelés" is \baʁ.bə.le\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "barbelés" come from?
"barbelés" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "barbelés", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list