barbes
French, noun
barbes is spelled B-A-R-B-E-S (6 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written French, the 28,870th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Barbes is a French feminine noun meaning “plural of barbe” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, barbés is a different word: “masculine plural of barbé”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Se dit des bandes de toile ou de dentelle qui pendent à certaines coiffures de femme”.
What does barbes mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineplural of barbe
verb
- 1
masculinemasculine plural of barbé
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Se dit des bandes de toile ou de dentelle qui pendent à certaines coiffures de femme. 2. Petites inégalités qui restent à certains ouvrages de métal et qu’on enlève avec un outil tranchant, avec le brunissoir, ou autrement. 3. Moisissures qui se produisent sur les confitures, le gibier, les fruits, le fromage, etc. 4. Crins qui garnissent l’extrémité des fanons de la baleine.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How common is barbes in French?
barbes appears 1.1 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).