baroque
\ba.ʁɔk\
The verdict
“baroque” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,519. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,519
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualifie l’art que l’on situe entre la Renaissance et le classicisme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-baroque · baroque · French
baroque · rank #13,519 · 9 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,519
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH barbier
Nearest frequency peer: barbier (-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 « baroque »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- banale
banale
86,485 corpus weight
- Bangladesh
Bangladesh
86,484 corpus weight
- barbier
barbier
86,483 corpus weight
- baroque
baroque
86,482 corpus weight
- bataillons
bataillons
86,481 corpus weight
- Betty
Betty
86,480 corpus weight
What this shows « baroque » 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 | baroque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ba.ʁɔk\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #13,519 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « baroque »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around baroque (IPA \ba.ʁɔk\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #13,519 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for baroque, with forms such as "abroque", "baorque", and "baroqeu". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "bloque", "basque", "brique", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is baroque, spelled B-A-R-O-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Qualifie l’art que l’on situe entre la Renaissance et le classicisme.
- 2Irrégulier, en parlant d’une perle.
- 3Qui est d’une irrégularité bizarre au sens physique ou au sens moral.
- 4Une pensée, un système, une idéologie baroque est une référence à sa complexité structurelle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how baroque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour Justin Taylor, plus versé dans la musique baroque, enregistrer Chopin n’est pas allé de soi.
Style baroque.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abroque
- baorque
- baroqeu
- baroqque
- barouqe
- barqoue
- barroque
- bbaroque
- braoque
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of baroque - 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).