barrique

/\ba.ʁik\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#51,299

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

barrique is aFrenchnoun. It means: Tonneau, fût ou foudre de bois, normalement en chêne servant spécialement à la conservation ou au transport des liquides et d’une contenance variable suivant les régions : environ 225 litres pour l... Pronounced \ba.ʁik\.

Key facts for barrique
PropertyValue
Headwordbarrique
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ba.ʁik\
Letters8
Frequency rank#51,299
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for barrique is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ba.ʁik\. Corpus data places it at rank #51,299 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for barrique in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 barrique, spelled B-A-R-R-I-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Tonneau, fût ou foudre de bois, normalement en chêne servant spécialement à la conservation ou au transport des liquides et d’une contenance variable suivant les régions : environ 225 litres pour le type bordelais, ou 228 litres pour le type bourguignon ^([1]).
  2. 2
    Tonneau contenant d’autres corps que des liquides, caque ^([1]).
  3. 3
    Personne très grosse ^([2]).
  4. 4
    Nasse conique pour les lamproies ^([2]).
  5. 5
    Meuble représentant le conteneur du même nom dans les armoiries. Elle est impossible à distinguer du tonneau. Seule la connaissance du lieu où les armoiries ont été faites peut aiguiller sur le choix terminologique. À rapprocher de baril et tonneau.

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #51,299 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "barrique"?
"barrique" is spelled B-A-R-R-I-Q-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ba.ʁik\.
What does "barrique" mean?
As a noun, "barrique" means: Tonneau, fût ou foudre de bois, normalement en chêne servant spécialement à la conservation ou au transport des liquides et d’une contenance variable suivant les régions : environ 225 litres pour l...
How do you pronounce "barrique"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "barrique" is \ba.ʁik\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "barrique" come from?
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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.