barre verticale
\baʁ vɛʁ.ti.kal\
The verdict
“barre verticale” 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
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Caractère sous la forme [[Titres non pris en charge/Barre verticale||]]. Jusqu’aux années 1980, il y avait des systèmes qui montraient la barre verticale comme une barre discontinue.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | barre verticale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \baʁ vɛʁ.ti.kal\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “barre verticale” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for barre verticale is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \baʁ vɛʁ.ti.kal\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for barre verticale in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is barre verticale, spelled B-A-R-R-E- -V-E-R-T-I-C-A-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Caractère sous la forme [[Titres non pris en charge/Barre verticale||]]. Jusqu’aux années 1980, il y avait des systèmes qui montraient la barre verticale comme une barre discontinue.
- 2Danse à la barre verticale.
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- The one correct French spelling is B-A-R-R-E- -V-E-R-T-I-C-A-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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