barbu
\baʁ.by\
The verdict
“barbu” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,630. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,630
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a de la barbe, qui porte une barbe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-barbu · barbu · French
barbu · rank #17,630 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,630
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH baissent
Nearest frequency peer: baissent (-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 « barbu »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- baguettes
baguettes
82,373 corpus weight
- baissent
baissent
82,372 corpus weight
- barbu
barbu
82,371 corpus weight
- Bauer
Bauer
82,370 corpus weight
- Belgrade
Belgrade
82,369 corpus weight
- blablabla
blablabla
82,368 corpus weight
What this shows « barbu » 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 | barbu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \baʁ.by\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #17,630 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « barbu »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around barbu (IPA \baʁ.by\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #17,630 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for barbu, with forms such as "abrbu", "babru", and "barbbu". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bars", "Bart", "bari", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is barbu, spelled B-A-R-B-U.
Definition
- 1Qui a de la barbe, qui porte une barbe.
- 2Qualifie les parties d’un végétal qui ont des touffes de poils, de barbes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how barbu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y avait là Legray, le photographe, Lockroy, le dessinateur, etc., enfin, une quatorzaine de troupiers finis, plus ou moins moustachus, plus ou moins barbus, le sac au dos, le fusil à deux coups sur l'épaule, et chacun avec un râtelier varié à sa ceinture.
D’un étage à l’autre, c’était un remue-ménage incessant de paras, qui montaient et descendaient, chassant devant eux des Musulmans, prisonniers déguenillés, barbus de plusieurs jours.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abrbu
- babru
- barbbu
- barrbu
- barub
- bbarbu
- brabu
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of barbu - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).