barillet

/\ba.ʁi.jɛ\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#39,173

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

6

similar word pairs

barillet is aFrenchnoun. It means: Petit baril. Pronounced \ba.ʁi.jɛ\. Often confused with billet and Brille.

Key facts for barillet
PropertyValue
Headwordbarillet
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ba.ʁi.jɛ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#39,173
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of barillet in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for barillet is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ba.ʁi.jɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #39,173 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for barillet, with forms such as "abrillet", "bairllet", and "barilelt". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "billet", "Brille", "briller", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is barillet, spelled B-A-R-I-L-L-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Petit baril.
  2. 2
    Petite boîte ou petit bijou en forme de baril.
  3. 3
    Diverses sortes de dispositifs en forme de petit tonneau destinés à contenir tel ou tel mécanisme.
  4. 4
    Boîte du ressort d’une montre ou d’une pendule.
  5. 5
    Boîte où sont logées les balles d’un revolver.
  6. 6
    Cylindre dans lequel monte ou descend le piston d’une pompe.
  7. 7
    Cylindre se situant en-dessous du bec d’une clarinette.
  8. 8
    Dispositif destiné à faire condenser les liquides — en particulier l’eau — contenus dans le gaz d'éclairage, le gaz à l’eau
  9. 9
    Cavité située derrière le tambour de l’oreille.
  10. 10
    Mollusque univalve. ^([2])
  11. 11
    Demi-cylindre en bois de gaïac dont on entoure le mât de perroquet pour la manœuvre des vergues de perroquets volants.
  12. 12
    Dispositif rotatif placé dans une cuve remplie de sodium, utilisé pour charger et décharger les assemblages combustibles du cœur d’un réacteur rapide refroidi au sodium ; par extension, l’ensemble formé par le dispositif rotatif et la cuve.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: abrillet,bairllet,barilelt,barilet,barillett,barillte,barlilet,barrillet,bbarillet,braillet

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for barillet

Misspelling Variants of "barillet"

abrillet8bairllet8barilelt8barilet7barillett9barillte8barlilet8barrillet9
Misspelling Variants of "barillet"

Frequency rank: #39,173 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "barillet"?
"barillet" is spelled B-A-R-I-L-L-E-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ba.ʁi.jɛ\.
What does "barillet" mean?
As a noun, "barillet" means: Petit baril.
What words are commonly confused with "barillet"?
"barillet" is commonly confused with "billet", "Brille", "briller". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "barillet"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "barillet" is \ba.ʁi.jɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "barillet" come from?
"barillet" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.