Barrère
\ba.ʁɛʁ\
The verdict
“Barrère” is uncommon French (frequency #61,328 among 227,490 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,328
- frequency rank, French
- 227,490
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nom de famille français.
| 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) |
Where “Barrère” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Barrère is uncommon French at frequency #61,328 among 227,490 “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.
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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Using “Barrère”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-A-R-R-È-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ba.ʁɛʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.