Barrington
The verdict
“Barrington” is uncommon French (frequency #81,800 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,800
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille anglais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-barrington · Barrington · French
Barrington · rank #81,800 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,800
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH baroudeurs
Nearest frequency peer: baroudeurs (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Barrington »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bandy
bandy
18,204 corpus weight
- baroudeurs
baroudeurs
18,202 corpus weight
- Barrington
Barrington
18,201 corpus weight
- basher
basher
18,200 corpus weight
- bedonnant
bedonnant
18,199 corpus weight
- bellum
bellum
18,198 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Barrington » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Barrington |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #81,800 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Barrington » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Barrington is uncommon French at frequency #81,800 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille anglais.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Barrington in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Barrington, spelled B-A-R-R-I-N-G-T-O-N.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille anglais.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Barrington appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Solides en défense face aux Girondins, les protégés de Bernard Goutta se sont montrés cette fois efficaces en attaque avec quatre essais, dont trois en première période, signés Barrington, Belan et Bellot.
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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