barrières
\ba.ʁjɛʁ\
The verdict
“barrières” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,279. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,279
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de barrière.
Corpus desk
Index FR-barrieres · barrières · French
barrières · rank #9,279 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,279
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bancs
Nearest frequency peer: bancs (-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 « barrières »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- baguette
baguette
90,725 corpus weight
- ballet
ballet
90,724 corpus weight
- bancs
bancs
90,723 corpus weight
- barrières
barrières
90,722 corpus weight
- branle
branle
90,720 corpus weight
- brouillard
brouillard
90,719 corpus weight
What this shows « barrières » 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 | barrières |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.ʁjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #9,279 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « barrières »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around barrières (IPA \ba.ʁjɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,279 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de barrière.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for barrières, with forms such as "abrrières", "barirères", and "barières". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "barriques", "barrière", "bannières", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is barrières, spelled B-A-R-R-I-È-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de barrière.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how barrières appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abrrières
- barirères
- barières
- barrieres
- barrirèes
- barrièers
- barrièress
- barrièrres
- barrièrse
- barrèires
- bbarrières
- brarières
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of barrières - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).