barrer
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.11 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who or that which bars.
noun
A non-SI unit of gas permeability.
name
A surname
Example Sentences
- "The worst merely bars some exceptions without looking at the proof at all. Hence the mystification when we have the proof on the one hand and the exceptions on the other. In the mind of such primitive exception-barrers, the proof and the exceptions exist in two completely separate compartments."
Etymology
Etymology tree Vulgar Latin *barra Old French barrebor. Middle English barre English bar Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English barrer From bar + -er.