barbet
\baʁ.bɛ\
The verdict
“barbet” is uncommon French (frequency #57,098 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,098
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Race de chien d’eau, originaire de France, à poil long, laineux et frisé, à robe unicolore.
Corpus desk
Index FR-barbet · barbet · French
barbet · rank #57,098 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,098
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bandai
Nearest frequency peer: bandai (-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 « barbet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- babouins
babouins
42,906 corpus weight
- baladait
baladait
42,905 corpus weight
- bandai
bandai
42,904 corpus weight
- barbet
barbet
42,903 corpus weight
- barbouzes
barbouzes
42,902 corpus weight
- baroudeur
baroudeur
42,901 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « barbet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | barbet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \baʁ.bɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #57,098 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « barbet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
barbet is uncommon French at frequency #57,098 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \baʁ.bɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for barbet, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is barbet, spelled B-A-R-B-E-T.
Definition
- 1Race de chien d’eau, originaire de France, à poil long, laineux et frisé, à robe unicolore.
- 2Rouget de vase.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how barbet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le barbet est l’ancêtre du caniche et de griffons.
S’il lui fallait un peu de volaille, c’était pour en donner les os à un barbet noir, son compagnon fidèle.
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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