Which to use
“bara” and “barra” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #44,884
- “bara” frequency rank
- #36,267
- “barra” frequency rank
- 81151
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | bara | barra |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Travailler. | Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de barrer. |
Same sound, different letters: bara vs barra
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 4 letters. bara runs 4 letters (CVCV) against barra's 5 (CVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - bara and barra
This is the hard kind. bara and barra are pronounced identically (\ba.ʁa\) and both work as averb. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 81151, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
bara is recorded at frequency rank #44,884, classified as averb, pronounced \ba.ʁa\. barra is at rank #36,267, tagged as averb, pronounced \ba.ʁa\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 81151, this pair ranks #19,380 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of bara vs barra
Shared letters: abr. Private to "bara": -. Private to "barra": -.
"bara" · 4 letters · shape CVCV · "barra" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "bara" and "barra" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "bara" vs "barra" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "bara" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "barra" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #19,380 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "bara" and "barra" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "bara vs bury". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #19,380 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.