baroques

\ba.ʁɔk\

/\ba.ʁɔk\/ adj

The verdict

“baroques” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,668. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#38,668
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
10
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de baroque.

Corpus desk

Index FR-baroques · baroques · French

baroques · rank #38,668 · 11 variants · 10 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #38,668
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH banalités

Nearest frequency peer: banalités (-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 « baroques »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « baroques » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

baroques vs barque
75% similar
baroques vs basques
75% similar
baroques vs barques
88% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for baroques
PropertyValue
Headwordbaroques
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ba.ʁɔk\
Letters8
Frequency rank#38,668
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « baroques »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).baroquesse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « banalités » (#38,667), « balançant » (#38,666), « bayou » (#38,670). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « baroques » est au #38,668. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around baroques (IPA \ba.ʁɔk\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #38,668 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de baroque.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for baroques, with forms such as "abroques", "baorques", and "baroqeus". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "barque", "basques", "barques", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is baroques, spelled B-A-R-O-Q-U-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de baroque.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how baroques appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Vous connaissez ces villas baroques, édifiées au bord de la mer, à la ressemblance d’une pagode ou d’une mosquée, d’où sort, sur le coup de dix heures du matin, une énorme commère, confidentielle et rancunière, en espadrilles et en taffetas rose, coiffée d’un chapeau canotier, sa « pêche » à crevettes à la main.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • abroques
  • baorques
  • baroqeus
  • baroqques
  • baroquess
  • baroquse
  • barouqes
  • barqoues
  • barroques
  • bbaroques
  • braoques

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of baroques - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

abroques2baorques2baroqeus2baroqques1baroquess1baroquse2barouqes2barqoues2
Edit distance from "baroques"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "baroques"?
"baroques" is spelled B-A-R-O-Q-U-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ba.ʁɔk\.
What does "baroques" mean?
As an adjective, "baroques" means: Pluriel de baroque.
What words are commonly confused with "baroques"?
"baroques" is commonly confused with "barque", "basques", "barques". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "baroques"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "baroques" is \ba.ʁɔk\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "baroques" come from?
"baroques" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "baroques", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list