Barkley
The verdict
“Barkley” is uncommon French (frequency #50,665 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,665
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Course annuelle de type ultramarathon, dans le Tennessee.
Corpus desk
Index FR-barkley · Barkley · French
Barkley · rank #50,665 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,665
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH baraquements
Nearest frequency peer: baraquements (-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 « Barkley »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- balkanique
balkanique
49,338 corpus weight
- baraquements
baraquements
49,337 corpus weight
- Barkley
Barkley
49,336 corpus weight
- barret
barret
49,335 corpus weight
- battes
battes
49,334 corpus weight
- beacon
beacon
49,333 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Barkley » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Barkley |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,665 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Barkley » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Barkley is uncommon French at frequency #50,665 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Course annuelle de type ultramarathon, dans le Tennessee.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Barkley, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Barkley, spelled B-A-R-K-L-E-Y.
Definition
- 1Course annuelle de type ultramarathon, dans le Tennessee.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Barkley appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un ingénieur toulousain vient de placer la France dans l’histoire de la Barkley, considérée comme l’ultratrail le plus dur au monde.
Réputé comme l’ultra-trail le plus difficile au monde, la Barkley vient de s’achever dans le massif de Frozen Head, au coeur de l’Amérique.
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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