Barbezieux
\baʁ.bə.zjø\
The verdict
“Barbezieux” is uncommon French (frequency #65,723 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,723
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom court de Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire, commune française, située dans le département de la Charente.
Corpus desk
Index FR-barbezieux · Barbezieux · French
Barbezieux · rank #65,723 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,723
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH barcelonnette
Nearest frequency peer: barcelonnette (+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 « Barbezieux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- balayées
balayées
34,282 corpus weight
- Balma
Balma
34,281 corpus weight
- balo
balo
34,280 corpus weight
- Barbezieux
Barbezieux
34,278 corpus weight
- barcelonnet…
barcelonnette
34,277 corpus weight
- barette
barette
34,276 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Barbezieux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Barbezieux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \baʁ.bə.zjø\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #65,723 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Barbezieux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Barbezieux is uncommon French at frequency #65,723 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \baʁ.bə.zjø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom court de Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire, commune française, située dans le département de la Charente.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Barbezieux, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented 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 Barbezieux, spelled B-A-R-B-E-Z-I-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Nom court de Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire, commune française, située dans le département de la Charente.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Barbezieux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les variantes désignent très-probablement le même travail d’un comte d’Angoulème, entrepris au bord du Né, à la limite des seigneuries d’Archiac et de Barbezieux.
Chef du secteur de la Saur, qui gère le service public d’eau potable pour Barbezieux, Richard Bô a dressé un état des lieux des deux captages qui alimentent la commune devant le conseil municipal réuni mercredi : le puits des Bruns à Barret et celui de Chez Drouillard à Saint-Hilaire.
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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