orgue de Barbarie
\ɔʁɡ də baʁ.ba.ʁi\
The verdict
“orgue 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
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Appareil mécanique qui produit de la musique à partir de cartes perforées, dans des tuyaux d’orgue.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | orgue de Barbarie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔʁɡ də baʁ.ba.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “orgue de Barbarie” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for orgue de Barbarie is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔʁɡ 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: "Appareil mécanique qui produit de la musique à partir de cartes perforées, dans des tuyaux d’orgue.".
No misspelling variants are generated for orgue de Barbarie in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 orgue de Barbarie, spelled O-R-G-U-E- -D-E- -B-A-R-B-A-R-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Appareil mécanique qui produit de la musique à partir de cartes perforées, dans des tuyaux d’orgue.
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- The one correct French spelling is O-R-G-U-E- -D-E- -B-A-R-B-A-R-I-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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