barbouiller
\baʁ.bu.je\
The verdict
“barbouiller” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Couvrir d’un enduit de couleur fait grossièrement à la brosse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-barbouiller · barbouiller · French
barbouiller · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | barbouiller |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \baʁ.bu.je\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « barbouiller » en français
Rare enough to double-check
barbouiller is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \baʁ.bu.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 7 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for barbouiller in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 barbouiller, spelled B-A-R-B-O-U-I-L-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Couvrir d’un enduit de couleur fait grossièrement à la brosse.
- 2Salir ; souiller ; tacher ; enduire.
- 3Écrire d’une manière indéchiffrable.
- 4Peindre sans connaissance de la peinture, par amusement.
- 5Prononcer mal, d’une manière peu distincte.
- 6Exprimer ses idées d’une manière confuse, embrouillée.
- 7Troubler fortement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how barbouiller appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Barbouiller un plafond, une porte.
"Laissez-le faire, dit-il : qu’il écrive. S’il ne fait que barbouiller le papier, je vous promets que je le punirai sur-le-champ."
Synonyms
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.