barre transversale
\baʁ tʁɑ̃s.vɛʁ.sal\
The verdict
“barre transversale” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Barre fixée horizontalement au sommet de deux poteaux et délimitant le haut d’un but dans certains sports comme le football ou le handball.
Corpus desk
Index FR-barre-transversale · barre transversale · French
barre transversale · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 18 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | barre transversale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \baʁ tʁɑ̃s.vɛʁ.sal\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
barre transversale is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \baʁ tʁɑ̃s.vɛʁ.sal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Barre fixée horizontalement au sommet de deux poteaux et délimitant le haut d’un but dans certains sports comme le football ou le handball.".
Zero misspellings are on record for barre transversale in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 transversale, spelled B-A-R-R-E- -T-R-A-N-S-V-E-R-S-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Barre fixée horizontalement au sommet de deux poteaux et délimitant le haut d’un but dans certains sports comme le football ou le handball.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how barre transversale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après avoir égalisé de la tête (1-1, 18e), Hurst inscrit, en prolongation, d’un tir puissant qui heurte la barre transversale (3-2, 101e), le but le plus controversé de l’histoire de la Coupe du monde.
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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.