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barre

French, noun

barre is spelled B-A-R-R-E (5 letters) and appears 40 times per million words in written French, the 2,074th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Barre is a French feminine noun meaning “bar, cake, ingot” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, barré is a different word: “barred”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Pièce de bois, de métal, etc., étroite et longue”.

What does barre mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininebar, cake, ingot

  2. 2

    feminineclipping of barre oblique: the slash mark ⟨/⟩

  3. 3

    feminineclipping of barre de fraction: the fraction slash ⟨⁄⟩

  4. 4

    feminineclipping of barre inscrite: the bar diacritics ⟨̵⟩, ⟨̶⟩, ⟨̷⟩, and ⟨̸⟩

  5. 5

    feminineclipping of barre verticale: the vertical bar ⟨|⟩

  6. 6

    feminineclipping of barre oblique inversée: the backslash ⟨\⟩

  7. 7

    femininehelm, tiller

  8. 8

    femininebend sinister

adjective

as barré
  1. 1

    barred

  2. 2

    bendy sinister; made up of diagonal stripes

  3. 3

    informalcrazy, insane

verb

as barré
  1. 1

    past participle of barrer

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Pièce de bois, de métal, etc., étroite et longue. 2. Pièce de bois ou de métal qui permet la fermeture d’une porte ou d’une fenêtre. 3. Objet assez rigide à la section plutôt rectangloïde et uniforme. 4. Présentation d'un aliment en morceau oblong.

adjective: 1. Fermé à l’aide d’une barre ou par d’autres moyens. 2. Qualifie un blason partitionné en un nombre pair de pièces dans le sens de la barre. 3. Biffé, marqué d'une ou de plusieurs barres. 4. Au féminin, qualifie une femme dont le vagin est presque fermé.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of barre

  • barres plural
  • barrée feminine
  • barrés masculine plural
  • barrées feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to barre

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is barre in French?

barre appears 40 times per million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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