baro
\ˈbɑː.ro\
The verdict
“baro” is uncommon French (frequency #68,844 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,844
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forme mutée de paro par adoucissement (p → b).
Corpus desk
Index FR-baro · baro · French
baro · rank #68,844 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,844
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH barmaid
Nearest frequency peer: barmaid (-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 « baro »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- Bartok
Bartok
31,155 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « baro » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baro |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈbɑː.ro\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #68,844 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « baro » en français
Rare enough to double-check
baro is uncommon French at frequency #68,844 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈbɑː.ro\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Forme mutée de paro par adoucissement (p → b).".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for baro, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 baro, spelled B-A-R-O.
Definition
- 1Forme mutée de paro par adoucissement (p → b).
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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