Barbey
\baʁ.bɛ\
The verdict
“Barbey” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #45,465. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,465
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de Seine-et-Marne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-barbey · Barbey · French
Barbey · rank #45,465 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,465
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH baraka
Nearest frequency peer: baraka (-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 « Barbey »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Balthasar
Balthasar
54,539 corpus weight
- balèze
balèze
54,538 corpus weight
- baraka
baraka
54,537 corpus weight
- Barbey
Barbey
54,536 corpus weight
- barges
barges
54,535 corpus weight
- Batignolles
Batignolles
54,534 corpus weight
What this shows « Barbey » 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 | Barbey |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \baʁ.bɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #45,465 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Barbey »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Barbey (IPA \baʁ.bɛ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #45,465 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département de Seine-et-Marne.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Barbey, with forms such as "abrbey", "babrey", and "barbbey". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "barre", "Barry", "barbu", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Barbey, spelled B-A-R-B-E-Y.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de Seine-et-Marne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Barbey appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Puis, l'homme se sédentarise, élève dolmens et menhirs et, à partir de 1000 ans avant J.-C., commence l'âge des métaux. On en retrouve la trace dans des nécropoles à Chatenay, Marolles-sur-Seine et Barbey, près de Montereau.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abrbey
- babrey
- barbbey
- barbeyy
- barbye
- bareby
- barrbey
- bbarbey
- brabey
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Barbey - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
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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).