Barraud
The verdict
“Barraud” is uncommon French (frequency #90,448 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,448
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-barraud · Barraud · French
Barraud · rank #90,448 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,448
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH barri
Nearest frequency peer: barri (+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 « Barraud »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bacardi
Bacardi
9,557 corpus weight
- bakar
bakar
9,555 corpus weight
- Barraud
Barraud
9,553 corpus weight
- barri
barri
9,552 corpus weight
- beatus
beatus
9,550 corpus weight
- Beauvoisin
Beauvoisin
9,549 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Barraud » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Barraud |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #90,448 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Barraud » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Barraud is uncommon French at frequency #90,448 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Barraud, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Barraud, spelled B-A-R-R-A-U-D.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Barraud appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’image du phare n’est pas galvaudée, selon Aristide Barraud, un photographe qui a « squatté » l’immeuble pendant la phase de destruction.
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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