Barma
The verdict
“Barma” is uncommon French (frequency #97,687 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,687
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-barma · Barma · French
Barma · rank #97,687 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,687
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bake
Nearest frequency peer: bake (-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 « Barma »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Aztec
Aztec
2,319 corpus weight
- babiole
babiole
2,317 corpus weight
- baiseurs
baiseurs
2,316 corpus weight
- bake
bake
2,315 corpus weight
- Barma
Barma
2,314 corpus weight
- Bassi
Bassi
2,310 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Barma » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Barma |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #97,687 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Barma » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Barma is uncommon French at frequency #97,687 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Barma, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Barma, spelled B-A-R-M-A.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Barma appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le réalisateur était Claude Barma, l’une des gloires de la télévision de l’époque (Belphégor, Les Enquêtes du commissaire Maigret, Les Rois maudits, etc.).
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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