Barclay
The verdict
“Barclay” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,172. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,172
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-barclay · Barclay · French
Barclay · rank #39,172 · 11 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #39,172
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bandés
Nearest frequency peer: bandés (-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 « Barclay »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ayatollah
ayatollah
60,832 corpus weight
- bandés
bandés
60,830 corpus weight
- Barclay
Barclay
60,829 corpus weight
- barillet
barillet
60,828 corpus weight
- Barlow
Barlow
60,827 corpus weight
- bellegarde
bellegarde
60,826 corpus weight
What this shows « Barclay » 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 | Barclay |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #39,172 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Barclay »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Barclay, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #39,172 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Barclay, with forms such as "abrclay", "bacrlay", and "barcaly". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "barca", 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 Barclay, spelled B-A-R-C-L-A-Y.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Barclay appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jean-Claude Barclay.
Napoléon avait commencé la guerre contre la Russie parce qu’il ne pouvait […] pas retenir son emportement en présence de Kourakine et ensuite de Balachov. Alexandre renonçait à tout pourparler parce qu’il se sentait personnellement blessé. Barclay de Tolly tâchait de diriger l’armée, le mieux possible, afin de remplir son devoir et de mériter la gloire de…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abrclay
- bacrlay
- barcaly
- barcclay
- barclayy
- barcllay
- barclya
- barlcay
- barrclay
- bbarclay
- braclay
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Barclay - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).