barrait
\ba.ʁɛ\
The verdict
“barrait” is uncommon French (frequency #74,589 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,589
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe barrer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-barrait · barrait · French
barrait · rank #74,589 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,589
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH barley
Nearest frequency peer: barley (-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 « barrait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bafouées
bafouées
25,416 corpus weight
- bangs
bangs
25,415 corpus weight
- barley
barley
25,413 corpus weight
- barrait
barrait
25,412 corpus weight
- bayart
bayart
25,409 corpus weight
- belang
belang
25,407 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « barrait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | barrait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ba.ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #74,589 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « barrait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
barrait is uncommon French at frequency #74,589 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ba.ʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe barrer.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for barrait, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is barrait, spelled B-A-R-R-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe barrer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how barrait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le soir, l’un et l’autre semblèrent tout à fait rentrés chez eux, et il n’y avait que le cercueil qui les embarrassât, maintenant, dans la chambre dont il barrait le milieu.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).