barbin
\baʁ.bɛ̃\
The verdict
“barbin” is uncommon French (frequency #85,500 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,500
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonyme de roussanne qui est un cépage blanc à jus blanc de Savoie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-barbin · barbin · French
barbin · rank #85,500 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,500
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Barbarossa
Nearest frequency peer: Barbarossa (-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 « barbin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bandera
bandera
14,505 corpus weight
- banker
banker
14,504 corpus weight
- Barbarossa
Barbarossa
14,502 corpus weight
- barbin
barbin
14,501 corpus weight
- Barguil
Barguil
14,500 corpus weight
- basaltes
basaltes
14,497 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « barbin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | barbin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \baʁ.bɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #85,500 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « barbin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
barbin is uncommon French at frequency #85,500 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \baʁ.bɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Synonyme de roussanne qui est un cépage blanc à jus blanc de Savoie.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for barbin, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is barbin, spelled B-A-R-B-I-N.
Definition
- 1Synonyme de roussanne qui est un cépage blanc à jus blanc de Savoie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how barbin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les cépages cultivés sont : en vignes rouges, la mondcuse, le persan, le corbeau et le doucet; en vignes blanches, le barbin ou roussanne de la Drôme.
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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