barème
French, noun/ba.ʁɛm/
barème is spelled B-A-R-È-M-E (6 letters) and appears 3.1 times per million words in written French, the 15,592nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Barème is a French masculine noun meaning “scale (used to assess magnitude)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Recueil de comptes déjà faits à l'avance (certains présentés sous la forme de tableaux), facilitant le…”.
What does barème mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinescale (used to assess magnitude)
- 2
masculineschedule (linking two types of measurement)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Recueil de comptes déjà faits à l'avance (certains présentés sous la forme de tableaux), facilitant le travail des comptables. 2. Valeurs inscrites sur ce compte. 3. Homme qui a une facilité merveilleuse à compter.
noun: 1. Variante orthographique de barème.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of barème
- barèmes plural
- barême obsolete
- barêmes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce barème?
- /ba.ʁɛm/
- \ba.ʁɛm\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is barème in French?
barème appears 3.1 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).