blé de Barbarie
\ble də baʁ.ba.ʁi\
The verdict
“blé de Barbarie” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Synonyme de sarrasin, Fagopyrum esculentum.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blé de Barbarie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ble də baʁ.ba.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “blé de Barbarie” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for blé de Barbarie is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ble də baʁ.ba.ʁi\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Synonyme de sarrasin, Fagopyrum esculentum.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for blé de Barbarie in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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. The correct French form is blé de Barbarie, spelled B-L-É- -D-E- -B-A-R-B-A-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Synonyme de sarrasin, Fagopyrum esculentum.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “blé de Barbarie”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-L-É- -D-E- -B-A-R-B-A-R-I-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ble də baʁ.ba.ʁi\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.