barbier
\baʁ.bje\
The verdict
“barbier” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,518. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,518
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui dont le métier est de couper la barbe ou les cheveux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-barbier · barbier · French
barbier · rank #13,518 · 10 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,518
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bangladesh
Nearest frequency peer: Bangladesh (-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 « barbier »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- aînée
aînée
86,486 corpus weight
- banale
banale
86,485 corpus weight
- Bangladesh
Bangladesh
86,484 corpus weight
- barbier
barbier
86,483 corpus weight
- baroque
baroque
86,482 corpus weight
- bataillons
bataillons
86,481 corpus weight
What this shows « barbier » 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 | barbier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \baʁ.bje\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #13,518 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « barbier »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around barbier (IPA \baʁ.bje\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,518 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for barbier, with forms such as "abrbier", "babrier", and "barbbier". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "barrer", "Barker", "Bernier", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is barbier, spelled B-A-R-B-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Celui dont le métier est de couper la barbe ou les cheveux.
- 2Coiffeur pour homme, sans nécessairement qu’il coupe les barbes.
- 3Synonyme de barbier commun (poisson).
- 4Synonyme de gobiésocidé ou porte-écuelle (poisson).
- 5Chirurgien.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how barbier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’était le mercredi 15 novembre de l’an de grâce 1665. Ce soir-là, il y avait petit souper et grande compagnie, rue Vieille-du-Temple, chez La Vienne, le baigneur à la mode, l'étuviste en renom, le barbier du monde élégant.
Ce sont les plaies faites maladroitement, par les barbiers d’occasion, à l’aide de mauvais rasoirs, voire même de couteaux, plus ou moins bien affilés, qui créent des portes d’entrée à la contamination.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abrbier
- babrier
- barbbier
- barbeir
- barbierr
- barbire
- bariber
- barrbier
- bbarbier
- brabier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of barbier - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).