barrière
French, noun/ba.ʁjɛʁ/
barrière is spelled B-A-R-R-I-È-R-E (8 letters) and appears 12 times per million words in written French, the 5,851st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Barrière is a French feminine noun meaning “barrier” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Assemblage de plusieurs pièces de bois ou d’autres matériaux, servant à fermer un passage”.
What does barrière mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininebarrier
- 2
femininefence
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Assemblage de plusieurs pièces de bois ou d’autres matériaux, servant à fermer un passage. 2. Porte d’entrée grillée d’une ville fortifiée. 3. Bureaux placés aux voies d’accès des villes pour percevoir les droits d’entrée. 4. Endroit mal famé.
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 barrière
- barrières plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce barrière?
- /ba.ʁjɛʁ/
- /bɑ.ʁjɛʁ/
- \ba.ʁjɛʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to barrière
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is barrière in French?
barrière appears 12 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).