barrer
French, verb/ba.ʁe/
barrer is spelled B-A-R-R-E-R (6 letters) and appears 4.3 times per million words in written French, the 12,541st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Barrer is a French verb meaning “to bar, bar up (to lock or bolt with a bar)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Fermer avec une barre”.
What does barrer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to bar, bar up (to lock or bolt with a bar)
- 2
to bar off
- 3
to cross out, strike out (put written lines through written text, to show it is erroneous)
- 4
colloquialto go away, to leave, to fuck off
Barre-toi !
- 5
to lock (a door etc.; not necessarily with a bar)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Fermer avec une barre. 2. Verrouiller, fermer à clef. 3. Fermer, obstruer un chemin, un passage. 4. Traverser, gêner quelqu’un dans ses projets, dans ses entreprises, lui susciter des obstacles ; barrer le chemin.
verb: 1. Utilisé uniquement dans se barrer.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of barrer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- barrant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- barré participle past
- barre first-person indicative present
- barres indicative present second-person
- barrons first-person indicative plural
- barrez indicative plural present
- barrent indicative plural present
- barrais first-person imperfect indicative
- barrait imperfect indicative singular
- barrions first-person imperfect indicative
- barriez imperfect indicative plural
- barraient imperfect indicative plural
- barrai first-person historic indicative
- barras historic indicative past
- barra historic indicative past
- barrâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce barrer?
- /ba.ʁe/
- /bɑ.ʁe/
- \ba.ʁe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to barrer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is barrer in French?
barrer appears 4.3 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).