Barrère
\ba.ʁɛʁ\
The verdict
“Barrère” is uncommon French (frequency #61,328 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,328
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille français.
Corpus desk
Index FR-barrere · Barrère · French
Barrère · rank #61,328 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,328
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH barn
Nearest frequency peer: barn (-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 « Barrère »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- baigneur
baigneur
38,675 corpus weight
- barn
barn
38,674 corpus weight
- Barrère
Barrère
38,673 corpus weight
- basané
basané
38,672 corpus weight
- Basquiat
Basquiat
38,671 corpus weight
- battrait
battrait
38,670 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Barrère » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Barrère |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ba.ʁɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #61,328 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Barrère » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Barrère is uncommon French at frequency #61,328 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ba.ʁɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille français.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Barrère in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 Barrère, spelled B-A-R-R-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille français.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Barrère appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’assassinat de Ghislaine Barrère, commis trois mois après la condamnation de Chambaraud, a été confié à la DPJ de Nanterre.
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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