Barnabé
\baʁ.na.be\
The verdict
“Barnabé” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,324. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,324
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-barnabe · Barnabé · French
Barnabé · rank #44,324 · 11 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,324
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH barbeau
Nearest frequency peer: barbeau (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Barnabé »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- balisage
balisage
55,680 corpus weight
- barbeau
barbeau
55,678 corpus weight
- Barnabé
Barnabé
55,677 corpus weight
- Barnier
Barnier
55,676 corpus weight
- barèmes
barèmes
55,675 corpus weight
- bavards
bavards
55,674 corpus weight
What this shows « Barnabé » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Barnabé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \baʁ.na.be\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #44,324 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Barnabé »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Barnabé (IPA \baʁ.na.be\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #44,324 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom masculin.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Barnabé, with forms such as "abrnabé", "banrabé", and "baranbé". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "barrage", "barbe", "banane", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Barnabé, spelled B-A-R-N-A-B-É.
Definition
- 1Prénom masculin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Barnabé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« J’ai plus d’un truc pour réussir Car je possède en vérité Un nom qui plaît Barnabé, Barnabé, c’est assez facile à épeler… » — (Barnabé, interprétée par Fernandel dans le film « Barnabé » ; paroles de Jean Manse, musique de R. Dumas)
En novembre, on le mit en terre bénite, tout au bout du clos funéraire, sans même une croix de bois, sans un nom, dans un coin perdu où, à la Noël, Barnabé le boîteux, le fossoyeur d’Ovrilles, brûle les pommes mortes des pins étiques et clairbranchus que les claque-dents du village haut n’ont pas emportées pour défroidir leurs cahutes humides où l’âtre ch…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abrnabé
- banrabé
- baranbé
- barnabbé
- barnabe
- barnaéb
- barnbaé
- barnnabé
- barrnabé
- bbarnabé
- branabé
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Barnabé - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).