bari
\ba.ʁi\
The verdict
“bari” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #32,701) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #32,701
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Barque sacrée égyptienne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bari · bari · French
bari · rank #32,701 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,701
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bambous
Nearest frequency peer: bambous (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « bari »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- bahut
bahut
67,303 corpus weight
- balls
balls
67,302 corpus weight
- bambous
bambous
67,301 corpus weight
- bari
bari
67,300 corpus weight
- Beaumarchais
Beaumarchais
67,298 corpus weight
- bergen
bergen
67,297 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « bari » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | bari |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #32,701 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « bari »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bari is neighbouring look-alikes ("bi", "Br", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ba.ʁi\. Frequency #32,701 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Gloss: "Barque sacrée égyptienne.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for bari, with forms such as "bair", "barri", and "bbari". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bi", "Br", "bas", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is bari, spelled B-A-R-I.
Definition
- 1Barque sacrée égyptienne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bari appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des scènes variées, la bari mystique, le taureau Apis emportant la momie vers les régions de l’Occident, le jugement de l’âme et le pesage des actions du mort dans la balance suprême, les offrandes faites aux divinités funéraires ornaient les piliers de la salle.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bair
- barri
- bbari
- brai
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bari - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bari", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).