Barrel
\ˈbɛʁəl\
The verdict
“Barrel” is uncommon French (frequency #68,845 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,845
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Baril.
Corpus desk
Index FR-barrel · Barrel · French
Barrel · rank #68,845 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,845
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH baro
Nearest frequency peer: baro (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Barrel »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Barbuda
Barbuda
31,159 corpus weight
- barmaid
barmaid
31,158 corpus weight
- baro
baro
31,157 corpus weight
- Barrel
Barrel
31,156 corpus weight
- Bartok
Bartok
31,155 corpus weight
- basculant
basculant
31,154 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Barrel » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Barrel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈbɛʁəl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #68,845 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Barrel » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Barrel is uncommon French at frequency #68,845 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈbɛʁəl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Baril.".
Barrel doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists 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 Barrel, spelled B-A-R-R-E-L.
Definition
- 1Baril.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Barrel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die USA verbrauchen schätzungsweise 20 Millionen Barrel Öl am Tag.
Die schwindende Furcht vor Engpässen am Rohölmarkt hat den Ölpreis wieder unter die Marke von 100 Dollar pro Barrel gedrückt.
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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