barrière

/\ba.ʁjɛʁ\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,838

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

8

similar word pairs

barrière is aFrenchnoun. It means: Assemblage de plusieurs pièces de bois ou d’autres matériaux, servant à fermer un passage. Pronounced \ba.ʁjɛʁ\. It ranks #5,838 in French word frequency. Often confused with brière and Bavière.

Key facts for barrière
PropertyValue
Headwordbarrière
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ba.ʁjɛʁ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#5,838
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of barrière in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for barrière is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ba.ʁjɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,838 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for barrière, with forms such as "abrrière", "barirère", and "barière". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "brière", "Bavière", "barrières", 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 barrière, spelled B-A-R-R-I-È-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Assemblage de plusieurs pièces de bois ou d’autres matériaux, servant à fermer un passage.
  2. 2
    Porte d’entrée grillée d’une ville fortifiée.
  3. 3
    Bureaux placés aux voies d’accès des villes pour percevoir les droits d’entrée.
  4. 4
    Endroit mal famé.
  5. 5
    Enceinte fermée de barrières où se faisaient les joutes, les tournois, les courses de bague, etc.
  6. 6
    Ce qui sert de borne et de défense naturelle à un État.
  7. 7
    Empêchement ou obstacle à quelque chose.
  8. 8
    Meuble représentant l’objet du même nom dans les armoiries. Elle est généralement représentée avec un certain nombre de pals verticaux appointés reliés par 2 éléments horizontaux. À rapprocher de haie et palissade.
  9. 9
    Un des types d'obstacle figurant dans les courses de steeple-chase.
  10. 10
    Petite palissade ou muret formant traditionnellement la façade des loges et délimitant l'aire de spectacle d’un cirque.
  11. 11
    Haie d'honneur réunissant l'équipe des garçons de piste en uniforme devant le rideau situé à l'entrée des artistes.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: abrrière,barirère,barière,barriere,barrirèe,barrièer,barrièrre,barrèire,bbarrière,brarière

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for barrière

Misspelling Variants of "barrière"

abrrière8barirère8barière7barriere8barrirèe8barrièer8barrièrre9barrèire8
Misspelling Variants of "barrière"

Frequency rank: #5,838 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "barrière"?
"barrière" is spelled B-A-R-R-I-È-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ba.ʁjɛʁ\.
What does "barrière" mean?
As a noun, "barrière" means: Assemblage de plusieurs pièces de bois ou d’autres matériaux, servant à fermer un passage.
What words are commonly confused with "barrière"?
"barrière" is commonly confused with "brière", "Bavière", "barrières". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "barrière"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "barrière" is \ba.ʁjɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "barrière" come from?
"barrière" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.