Baruch
\ba.ʁuk\
The verdict
“Baruch” is uncommon French (frequency #62,079 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,079
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Baruch ben Neria, secrétaire du prophète Jérémie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-baruch · Baruch · French
Baruch · rank #62,079 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,079
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Barnard
Nearest frequency peer: Barnard (-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 « Baruch »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bapt
Bapt
37,925 corpus weight
- Barbusse
Barbusse
37,924 corpus weight
- Barnard
Barnard
37,923 corpus weight
- Baruch
Baruch
37,922 corpus weight
- Barèges
Barèges
37,921 corpus weight
- basketteurs
basketteurs
37,919 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Baruch » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Baruch |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ba.ʁuk\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,079 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Baruch » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Baruch is uncommon French at frequency #62,079 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ba.ʁuk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Baruch, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 Baruch, spelled B-A-R-U-C-H.
Definition
- 1Baruch ben Neria, secrétaire du prophète Jérémie.
- 2Livre de l’Ancien Testament, attribué au secrétaire de Jérémie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Baruch appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Voici les paroles du livre qu’écrivit Baruch, fils de Néreïas ; fils de Maasias, fils de Sédécias, fils de Sédéï, fils de Helcias, à Babylone, la cinquième année, le premier jour du mois, au temps où les Chaldéens avaient pris Jérusalem et l’avaient brûlée.
Le livre de Baruch est deutérocanonique, il n’est pas reconnu par les Protestants.
This word in other languages
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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