barral
\ba.ʁal\
The verdict
“barral” is uncommon French (frequency #59,100 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,100
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom d’un tonneau usité en Bourgogne, dans le Beaujolais, en Isère, etc. variant de capacité, 66 litres, 57 litres, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-barral · barral · French
barral · rank #59,100 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,100
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH barba
Nearest frequency peer: barba (-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 « barral »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Banff
Banff
40,904 corpus weight
- banquière
banquière
40,903 corpus weight
- barba
barba
40,902 corpus weight
- barral
barral
40,901 corpus weight
- basson
basson
40,900 corpus weight
- batraciens
batraciens
40,899 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « barral » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | barral |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.ʁal\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #59,100 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « barral » en français
Rare enough to double-check
barral is uncommon French at frequency #59,100 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ba.ʁal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom d’un tonneau usité en Bourgogne, dans le Beaujolais, en Isère, etc. variant de capacité, 66 litres, 57 litres, etc.".
No misspelling variants are generated for barral in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is barral, spelled B-A-R-R-A-L.
Definition
- 1Nom d’un tonneau usité en Bourgogne, dans le Beaujolais, en Isère, etc. variant de capacité, 66 litres, 57 litres, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how barral appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
BARAL, Barral. Ancienne mesure de capacité pour liquides, usitée dans le midi de la France.
Au retour, on y chargera le barral (tonneau sans cannelle contenant environ 45 litres et fait en bois de sapin pour être plus léger) au lieu de se le coltiner jusqu’au sommet, comme autrefois.
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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