barreaux
\ba.ʁo\
The verdict
“barreaux” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,331. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,331
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de barreau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-barreaux · barreaux · French
barreaux · rank #13,331 · 9 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,331
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH boucherie
Nearest frequency peer: boucherie (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « barreaux »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- attirant
attirant
86,673 corpus weight
- barbare
barbare
86,672 corpus weight
- barreaux
barreaux
86,670 corpus weight
- boucherie
boucherie
86,669 corpus weight
- BP
BP
86,668 corpus weight
- Brexit
Brexit
86,667 corpus weight
What this shows « barreaux » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | barreaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.ʁo\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #13,331 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « barreaux »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around barreaux (IPA \ba.ʁo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,331 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de barreau.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for barreaux, with forms such as "abrreaux", "bareaux", and "bareraux". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "bureaux", "bateaux", "bordeaux", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is barreaux, spelled B-A-R-R-E-A-U-X.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de barreau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how barreaux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comment se fait-il que l’Alhambra de nougat conserve intactes ses délicates aiguilles et ne tombe pas en ruines, que la compote soit assez patiente pour ne pas s’évader à travers les barreaux de pâte de la tarte, que le saint-honoré tremblant et mollasse ne devienne pas une informe bouillie semblable à de la neige longtemps piétinée, que le godiveau, cont…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abrreaux
- bareaux
- bareraux
- barraeux
- barreauxx
- barreaxu
- barreuax
- bbarreaux
- brareaux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of barreaux - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).