barmaid
\baʁ.mɛd\
The verdict
“barmaid” is uncommon French (frequency #68,843 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,843
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Serveuse de bar.
Corpus desk
Index FR-barmaid · barmaid · French
barmaid · rank #68,843 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,843
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Barbuda
Nearest frequency peer: Barbuda (-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 « barmaid »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Balmont
Balmont
31,161 corpus weight
- baoulé
baoulé
31,160 corpus weight
- Barbuda
Barbuda
31,159 corpus weight
- barmaid
barmaid
31,158 corpus weight
- baro
baro
31,157 corpus weight
- Barrel
Barrel
31,156 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « barmaid » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | barmaid |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \baʁ.mɛd\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #68,843 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « barmaid » en français
Rare enough to double-check
barmaid is uncommon French at frequency #68,843 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \baʁ.mɛd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Serveuse de bar.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for barmaid, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is barmaid, spelled B-A-R-M-A-I-D.
Definition
- 1Serveuse de bar.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how barmaid appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Alors, me demanda la barmaid, on a perdu sa petite sœur ?
À travers l’or du vieux scotch, la vie semble plus belle et les barmaids paraissent plus jolies !
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).