barrage
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,911
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
barrage is aFrenchnoun. It means: Barrière qui ferme un chemin. Pronounced \bɑ.ʁaʒ\. It ranks #4,911 in French word frequency. Often confused with barre and barrée.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | barrage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɑ.ʁaʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,911 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for barrage is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bɑ.ʁaʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,911 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for barrage, with forms such as "abrrage", "barage", and "bararge". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "barre", "barrée", "battage", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is barrage, spelled B-A-R-R-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Barrière qui ferme un chemin.
- 2Constructions qui opposent un obstacle à un cours d’eau et qui ont pour objet de retenir l’eau, d’en élever le niveau, d’empêcher les inondations, d’obtenir une force motrice ou comme réserve pour l'irrigation et la consommation humaine.
- 3Rochers qui barrent une rivière.
- 4Obstacle imprévu. Opposition déterminée, concertée, en vue d’empêcher quelque chose.
- 5Droit de péage sur les voitures et les bêtes de somme, pour l’entretien des routes ^([2]).
- 6Linge ouvré ^([2]).
- 7Dans certaines épreuves de sauts d’obstacles, parcours supplémentaire destiné à départager les ex æquos ayant fait un sans-faute.
- 8Pause de quelques secondes en plein milieu d'une conversation ou d'une action suivie d'une reprise comme si rien ne s’était passé. Lié à la schizophrénie.
- 9Barrière faite par les policiers qui ferme un chemin, pour interpeller le conducteur d'un véhicule ou à une scène de crime.
- 10Action qui consiste à barrer, rayer des mots, des symboles.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abrrage,barage,bararge,barraeg,barragge,barrgae,bbarrage,brarage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "barrage"
Frequency rank: #4,911 in French
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