barbiers
\baʁ.bje\
The verdict
“barbiers” is uncommon French (frequency #70,413 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,413
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de barbier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-barbiers · barbiers · French
barbiers · rank #70,413 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,413
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH balourd
Nearest frequency peer: balourd (-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 « barbiers »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- baleinier
baleinier
29,590 corpus weight
- balourd
balourd
29,589 corpus weight
- barbiers
barbiers
29,588 corpus weight
- barda
barda
29,587 corpus weight
- barjo
barjo
29,586 corpus weight
- bast
bast
29,585 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « barbiers » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | barbiers |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \baʁ.bje\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #70,413 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « barbiers » en français
Rare enough to double-check
barbiers is uncommon French at frequency #70,413 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \baʁ.bje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de barbier.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for barbiers in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is barbiers, spelled B-A-R-B-I-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de barbier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how barbiers appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est elle, en effet, qui, chez les barbiers de la capitale, ensavonne les clients et armée de l’instrument tranchant, que vous connaissez, caresse les mentons poilus avec une maestria déconcertante.
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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