barbouillé
\baʁ.bu.je\
The verdict
“barbouillé” is uncommon French (frequency #73,748 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,748
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rendu opaque par de la saleté ou par de la peinture.
Corpus desk
Index FR-barbouille · barbouillé · French
barbouillé · rank #73,748 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,748
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH barbot
Nearest frequency peer: barbot (-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 « barbouillé »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bantou
bantou
26,256 corpus weight
- bapaume
bapaume
26,255 corpus weight
- barbot
barbot
26,254 corpus weight
- barbouillé
barbouillé
26,253 corpus weight
- barder
barder
26,252 corpus weight
- barone
barone
26,250 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « barbouillé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | barbouillé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \baʁ.bu.je\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #73,748 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « barbouillé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
barbouillé is uncommon French at frequency #73,748 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \baʁ.bu.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for barbouillé, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is barbouillé, spelled B-A-R-B-O-U-I-L-L-É.
Definition
- 1Rendu opaque par de la saleté ou par de la peinture.
- 2Grossièrement sali.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how barbouillé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Voici une fenêtre grillée dont les carreaux barbouillés révèlent les communs, œil terne, seul ouvert sur le monde extérieur.
Claire et moi, nous nous sommes connus enfants ; ensemble, et barbouillés des mêmes confitures, nous avons joué, elle et moi.
Antonyms
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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