barrique
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\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | barrique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.ʁik\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #51,299 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1Tonneau, 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]).
- 2Tonneau contenant d’autres corps que des liquides, caque ^([1]).
- 3Personne très grosse ^([2]).
- 4Nasse conique pour les lamproies ^([2]).
- 5Meuble 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.
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Frequency rank: #51,299 in French
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