barolo
\ba.ʁo.lo\
The verdict
“barolo” is uncommon French (frequency #96,653 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,653
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vin rouge italien du Piémont dont le cépage principal de l'appellation est le nebbiolo.
Corpus desk
Index FR-barolo · barolo · French
barolo · rank #96,653 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,653
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bariolés
Nearest frequency peer: bariolés (-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 « barolo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- barbaque
barbaque
3,350 corpus weight
- bariolés
bariolés
3,349 corpus weight
- barolo
barolo
3,348 corpus weight
- bassons
bassons
3,347 corpus weight
- Bathily
Bathily
3,346 corpus weight
- Batou
Batou
3,345 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « barolo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | barolo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.ʁo.lo\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #96,653 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « barolo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
barolo is uncommon French at frequency #96,653 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ba.ʁo.lo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Vin rouge italien du Piémont dont le cépage principal de l'appellation est le nebbiolo.".
barolo doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is barolo, spelled B-A-R-O-L-O.
Definition
- 1Vin rouge italien du Piémont dont le cépage principal de l'appellation est le nebbiolo.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how barolo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il faut savoir « escalader » un barolo ou un bandol, car c'est parfois rude et astringent, il faut pouvoir « pénétrer » un cahors ou un madiran, car c'est noir et bourru, il faut enfin supporter ces bourgognes maigres, étriqués et décharnés des années 1970 sans perdre son dentier.
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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