barres
French, verb
barres is spelled B-A-R-R-E-S (6 letters) and appears 9.8 times per million words in written French, the 6,801st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Barres is a French verb meaning “second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of barrer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, barrés is a different word: “masculine plural of barré”.
What does barres mean in English?
verb
- 1
second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of barrer
verb
- 1
masculinemasculine plural of barré
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Barres asymétriques ou barres parallèles, en gymnastique artistique.
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 barres
- barre singular
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is barres in French?
barres appears 9.8 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).