Barnabas
The verdict
“Barnabas” is uncommon French (frequency #80,911 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,911
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Barnabé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-barnabas · Barnabas · French
Barnabas · rank #80,911 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,911
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH barista
Nearest frequency peer: barista (-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 « Barnabas »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- bastards
bastards
19,087 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Barnabas » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Barnabas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #80,911 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Barnabas » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Barnabas is uncommon French at frequency #80,911 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Barnabé.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Barnabas in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 Barnabas, spelled B-A-R-N-A-B-A-S.
Definition
- 1Barnabé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Barnabas appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
And Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas, (which is, being interpreted, The son of consolation, ) a Levite, and of the country of Cyprus, having land, sold it, and brought the money, and laid it at the apostles' feet.
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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