how to pronounce barrage

/ba.ʁaʒ/

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barrage is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of barrage in a speech by a native speaker of standard french:

“… tueur c'est pour faire barrage il n'y a …”

meanings of barrage

noun:

Dam, barrage.
Barrier, roadblock.

barrage frequency in french - C1 level of CEFR

the word barrage occurs in french on average 8.2 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.