barn
\baʁn\
The verdict
“barn” is uncommon French (frequency #61,327 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,327
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Unité servant à mesurer une section efficace qui équivaut à 10⁻²⁸m².
Corpus desk
Index FR-barn · barn · French
barn · rank #61,327 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,327
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH baigneur
Nearest frequency peer: baigneur (-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 « barn »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- avenants
avenants
38,678 corpus weight
- baigneur
baigneur
38,675 corpus weight
- barn
barn
38,674 corpus weight
- Barrère
Barrère
38,673 corpus weight
- basané
basané
38,672 corpus weight
- Basquiat
Basquiat
38,671 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « barn » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | barn |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \baʁn\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #61,327 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « barn » en français
Rare enough to double-check
barn is uncommon French at frequency #61,327 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \baʁn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Unité servant à mesurer une section efficace qui équivaut à 10⁻²⁸m².".
Zero misspellings are on record for barn in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 barn, spelled B-A-R-N.
Definition
- 1Unité servant à mesurer une section efficace qui équivaut à 10⁻²⁸m².
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how barn appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le barn est homogène à une surface.
Le barn (qui signifie « grange » en anglais) fut ultérieurement introduit comme unité de mesure, et la section efficace s’exprimant comme un certain nombre de fois 10⁻²⁴ cm² devint ce même nombre de barns. Un picobarn représente un millième de milliardième (10⁻¹²) de barn, soit 10⁻³⁶ cm².
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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