barres
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,786
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
barres is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pluriel de barre. Pronounced \baʁ\. It ranks #6,786 in French word frequency. Often confused with bars and bases.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | barres |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \baʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #6,786 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for barres is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \baʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,786 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for barres, with forms such as "barers", "bares", and "barress". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bars", "bases", "Barry", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is barres, spelled B-A-R-R-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de barre.
- 2Jeu de course entre des écoliers ou des jeunes gens qui se partagent entre deux camps opposés, marqués ordinairement par un sillon, par une branche de feuillage, etc. : dans les courses on observe certaines règles et chaque parti s’efforce de faire des prisonniers à l’autre.
- 3Partie de la mâchoire du cheval sur laquelle le mors appuie.
- 4Barres asymétriques ou barres parallèles, en gymnastique artistique.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: barers,bares,barress,barrse,bbarres,brares
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for barres
Misspelling Variants of "barres"
Frequency rank: #6,786 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter B in our French index: