buffoonery
/bəˈfuːnəɹi/
"buffoonery" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“buffoonery” is uncommon English (frequency #77,487 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,487
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The behaviour expected of a buffoon; foolishness, silliness.
Corpus desk
Index EN-buffoonery · buffoonery · English
buffoonery · rank #77,487 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,487
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH budged
Nearest frequency peer: budged (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “buffoonery”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- brickman
brickman
22,521 corpus weight
- bucko
bucko
22,516 corpus weight
- budged
budged
22,515 corpus weight
- buffoonery
buffoonery
22,514 corpus weight
- buncombe
buncombe
22,512 corpus weight
- bureaux
bureaux
22,509 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “buffoonery” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | buffoonery |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bəˈfuːnəɹi/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #77,487 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “buffoonery” in English
Rare enough to double-check
buffoonery is uncommon English at frequency #77,487 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /bəˈfuːnəɹi/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The behaviour expected of a buffoon; foolishness, silliness.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for buffoonery, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From buffoon + -ery. The correct English form is buffoonery, spelled B-U-F-F-O-O-N-E-R-Y.
Definition
- 1The behaviour expected of a buffoon; foolishness, silliness.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how buffoonery appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Araminta, come I'll talk ſeriouſly to you now, could you but ſee vvith my Eyes the buffoonry of one Scene of Addreſs, a Lover, ſet out with all his Equipage and Appurtenances; […]
[W]e ſet him [the Devil] up like a Scare-Crovv to fright Children and old VVomen, to fill up old Stories, make Songs and Ballads, and in a VVord, carry on the lovv priz'd Buffoonry of the common People; […]
Etymology
From buffoon + -ery.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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