bare
\baʁ\
The verdict
“bare” is uncommon French (frequency #66,520 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,520
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de barer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bare · bare · French
bare · rank #66,520 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,520
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH banderas
Nearest frequency peer: banderas (-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 « bare »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- balme
balme
33,483 corpus weight
- banderas
banderas
33,482 corpus weight
- bare
bare
33,481 corpus weight
- barrant
barrant
33,480 corpus weight
- barrier
barrier
33,479 corpus weight
- basis
basis
33,478 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bare » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bare |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \baʁ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #66,520 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bare » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bare is uncommon French at frequency #66,520 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \baʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for bare in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bare, spelled B-A-R-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de barer.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de barer.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de barer.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de barer.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de barer.
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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