barrio
\ˈba.rjo\
The verdict
“barrio” is uncommon French (frequency #64,260 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,260
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Banlieue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-barrio · barrio · French
barrio · rank #64,260 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,260
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bardeaux
Nearest frequency peer: bardeaux (-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 « barrio »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Baka
Baka
35,745 corpus weight
- Balkan
Balkan
35,744 corpus weight
- baquets
baquets
35,743 corpus weight
- bardeaux
bardeaux
35,742 corpus weight
- barrio
barrio
35,741 corpus weight
- battrais
battrais
35,738 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « barrio » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | barrio |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈba.rjo\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #64,260 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « barrio » en français
Rare enough to double-check
barrio is uncommon French at frequency #64,260 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈba.rjo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
barrio doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is barrio, spelled B-A-R-R-I-O.
Definition
- 1Banlieue.
- 2Quartier.
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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