Barbusse
\baʁ.bys\
The verdict
“Barbusse” is uncommon French (frequency #62,077 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,077
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille, surtout connu par l’écrivain français Henri Barbusse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-barbusse · Barbusse · French
Barbusse · rank #62,077 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,077
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bapt
Nearest frequency peer: Bapt (-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 « Barbusse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bani
bani
37,927 corpus weight
- banlieusard
banlieusard
37,926 corpus weight
- Bapt
Bapt
37,925 corpus weight
- Barbusse
Barbusse
37,924 corpus weight
- Barnard
Barnard
37,923 corpus weight
- Baruch
Baruch
37,922 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Barbusse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Barbusse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \baʁ.bys\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #62,077 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Barbusse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Barbusse is uncommon French at frequency #62,077 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \baʁ.bys\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille, surtout connu par l’écrivain français Henri Barbusse.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Barbusse in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Barbusse, spelled B-A-R-B-U-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille, surtout connu par l’écrivain français Henri Barbusse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Barbusse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je revins dans le dixième arrondissement, après avoir connu la rue du Colisée, pour entrer au collège Rollin, où je trouvai Barbusse, qui fut bon élève.
Avant, les filles jouaient le samedi et les garçons le dimanche, jour où il y a plus de monde devant la télé, explique Béatrice Barbusse.
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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