barricade
\ba.ʁi.kad\
The verdict
“barricade” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,485. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,485
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Retranchement qu’on fait avec des barriques remplies de terre ou avec des pieux, des chaînes, des pavés, etc. pour se défendre, pour se mettre à couvert de l’ennemi.
Corpus desk
Index FR-barricade · barricade · French
barricade · rank #30,485 · 11 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #30,485
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH baises
Nearest frequency peer: baises (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « barricade »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- aviateur
aviateur
69,519 corpus weight
- avon
avon
69,518 corpus weight
- baises
baises
69,517 corpus weight
- barricade
barricade
69,516 corpus weight
- bath
bath
69,515 corpus weight
- battra
battra
69,514 corpus weight
What this shows « barricade » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | barricade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.ʁi.kad\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #30,485 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « barricade »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around barricade (IPA \ba.ʁi.kad\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,485 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for barricade, with forms such as "abrricade", "baricade", and "barircade". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "barricades", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is barricade, spelled B-A-R-R-I-C-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1Retranchement qu’on fait avec des barriques remplies de terre ou avec des pieux, des chaînes, des pavés, etc. pour se défendre, pour se mettre à couvert de l’ennemi.
- 2Tout ce qui fait obstacle ou peut protéger.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how barricade appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Deux cents barricades sont formées en un instant; on les pousse jusqu’à cent pas du Palais-Royal. Tous les soldats, après avoir vu tomber quelques-uns des leurs, reculent et regardent faire les bourgeois. Le parlement en corps marche à pied vers la reine, à travers les barricades qui s’abaissent devant lui, et redemande ses membres emprisonnés.
Quelques habitants avaient cru devoir barricader les portes de la ville ; mais Henri IV s’écria : Plus de barricades ! S’ils ne croient pas à mon pardon ou s’en jugent indignes, qu’ils accompagnent l’ambassadeur d'Espagne ou le cardinal légat.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abrricade
- baricade
- barircade
- barrciade
- barriacde
- barricadde
- barricaed
- barriccade
- barricdae
- bbarricade
- braricade
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of barricade - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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