barbiche
\baʁ.biʃ\
The verdict
“barbiche” is uncommon French (frequency #80,909 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,909
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite touffe de poils que l’on laisse pousser au menton.
Corpus desk
Index FR-barbiche · barbiche · French
barbiche · rank #80,909 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,909
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH barbera
Nearest frequency peer: barbera (-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 « barbiche »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- baptist
baptist
19,095 corpus weight
- barbarisme
barbarisme
19,094 corpus weight
- barbera
barbera
19,093 corpus weight
- barbiche
barbiche
19,092 corpus weight
- barista
barista
19,091 corpus weight
- Barnabas
Barnabas
19,090 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « barbiche » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | barbiche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \baʁ.biʃ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #80,909 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « barbiche » en français
Rare enough to double-check
barbiche is uncommon French at frequency #80,909 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \baʁ.biʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for barbiche, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is barbiche, spelled B-A-R-B-I-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Petite touffe de poils que l’on laisse pousser au menton.
- 2Un des noms vernaculaires de la nigelle de Damas.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how barbiche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce commandant, un homme fort, haut, avec des moustaches et une barbiche grises, […], nous reçut avec bonhomie et amabilité.
Devant moi, un type tout différent et qui n’a rien d’oriental : trente-deux à trente-cinq ans, figure à barbiche roussâtre, regard très vif, […].
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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