barber
\baʁ.be\
The verdict
“barber” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,678. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,678
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ennuyer quelqu'un.
Corpus desk
Index FR-barber · barber · French
barber · rank #37,678 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,678
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH banquettes
Nearest frequency peer: banquettes (-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 « barber »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bagnolet
bagnolet
62,326 corpus weight
- bancale
bancale
62,325 corpus weight
- banquettes
banquettes
62,324 corpus weight
- barber
barber
62,323 corpus weight
- bastogne
bastogne
62,322 corpus weight
- bavaroise
bavaroise
62,321 corpus weight
What this shows « barber » 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 | barber |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \baʁ.be\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #37,678 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « barber »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around barber (IPA \baʁ.be\), averb. Corpus frequency is #37,678 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for barber, with forms such as "abrber", "babrer", and "barbber". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "barr", "barre", "barbu", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 barber, spelled B-A-R-B-E-R.
Definition
- 1Ennuyer quelqu'un.
- 2S'ennuyer.
- 3Voler, escroquer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how barber appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Anthony Borden-Smythe. Sue l'appelait Anthony Barbant-Smith, prétendait qu'il descendait de la célèbre famille Barbant, que son père avait barbé toute l'Angleterre et que son grand-père était le fameux champion olympique des barbeurs.
Il lisait le scénario comme un enfant qui apprend à lire, il butait sur les mots, tout sonnait faux, […]. Pour lui, c'était un pensum, c'était sa manière de dire que ça le barbait.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abrber
- babrer
- barbber
- barberr
- barbre
- barebr
- barrber
- bbarber
- braber
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of barber - 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 "barber", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).