barre fixe
\baʁ fiks\
The verdict
“barre fixe” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Traverse cylindrique en acier soutenue par des poteaux et située à environ deux mètres cinquante au-dessus du sol, utilisée en gymnastique pour des exercices de voltige.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | barre fixe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \baʁ fiks\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “barre fixe” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for barre fixe is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \baʁ fiks\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Traverse cylindrique en acier soutenue par des poteaux et située à environ deux mètres cinquante au-dessus du sol, utilisée en gymnastique pour des exercices de voltige.".
Zero misspellings are on record for barre fixe in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is barre fixe, spelled B-A-R-R-E- -F-I-X-E.
Definition
- 1Traverse cylindrique en acier soutenue par des poteaux et située à environ deux mètres cinquante au-dessus du sol, utilisée en gymnastique pour des exercices de voltige.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “barre fixe”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-A-R-R-E- -F-I-X-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \baʁ fiks\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.