Barthel
\ˈbaːʀtǝl\
The verdict
“Barthel” is uncommon French (frequency #83,628 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,628
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-barthel · Barthel · French
Barthel · rank #83,628 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,628
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH barrera
Nearest frequency peer: barrera (-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 « Barthel »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Banon
Banon
16,376 corpus weight
- barrera
barrera
16,374 corpus weight
- Barthel
Barthel
16,373 corpus weight
- basileus
basileus
16,372 corpus weight
- bassiner
bassiner
16,371 corpus weight
- bassinet
bassinet
16,370 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Barthel » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Barthel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ˈbaːʀtǝl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #83,628 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Barthel » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Barthel is uncommon French at frequency #83,628 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ˈbaːʀtǝl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Barthel, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Barthel, spelled B-A-R-T-H-E-L.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
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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