barista
\ba.ʁis.ta\
The verdict
“barista” is uncommon French (frequency #80,910 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,910
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne derrière un comptoir, servant à la fois des espressos et des boissons alcoolisées.
Corpus desk
Index FR-barista · barista · French
barista · rank #80,910 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,910
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH barbiche
Nearest frequency peer: barbiche (-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 « barista »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- barbarisme
barbarisme
19,094 corpus weight
- barbera
barbera
19,093 corpus weight
- barbiche
barbiche
19,092 corpus weight
- barista
barista
19,091 corpus weight
- Barnabas
Barnabas
19,090 corpus weight
- bassines
bassines
19,088 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « barista » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | barista |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.ʁis.ta\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #80,910 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « barista » en français
Rare enough to double-check
barista is uncommon French at frequency #80,910 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ba.ʁis.ta\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for barista in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is barista, spelled B-A-R-I-S-T-A.
Definition
- 1Personne derrière un comptoir, servant à la fois des espressos et des boissons alcoolisées.
- 2Barman ou barmaid ambulant dans les voitures de train de la SNCF.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how barista appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au siège social turbine une académie du café, sous la conduite de Michae McCauley, caféologue et juge international dans les championnats du monde qui distinguent la crème de la crème des baristas.
Le mois dernier, dans la commune savoyarde de La Motte-Servolex, un barista, un chef, un mixologue, une designeuse, une maître sirupier et un comédien accueillent les premiers élèves de l’école Drink Design.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).