derrière les barreaux
\dɛ.ʁjɛʁ lɛ bɑ.ʁo\
The verdict
“derrière les barreaux” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - En prison.
Corpus desk
Index FR-derriere-les-barreaux · derrière les barreaux · French
derrière les barreaux · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 21 letters
- VOW-9 9 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | derrière les barreaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \dɛ.ʁjɛʁ lɛ bɑ.ʁo\ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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derrière les barreaux is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb, transcribed \dɛ.ʁjɛʁ lɛ bɑ.ʁo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "En prison.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for derrière les barreaux, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is derrière les barreaux, spelled D-E-R-R-I-È-R-E- -L-E-S- -B-A-R-R-E-A-U-X.
Definition
- 1En prison.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how derrière les barreaux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais les circonstances qui ont amené cet homme derrière les barreaux constituent un cas d’école, typique des dysfonctionnements de la justice pénale américaine et de ses biais raciaux.
Chaque année, cette organisation publie un rapport faisant état du nombre de journalistes se trouvant derrière les barreaux.
This word in other languages
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