baffe
\baf\
The verdict
“baffe” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,656. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,656
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gifle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-baffe · baffe · French
baffe · rank #29,656 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,656
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH aéronef
Nearest frequency peer: aéronef (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « baffe »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- avidité
avidité
70,349 corpus weight
- Axelle
Axelle
70,347 corpus weight
- aéronef
aéronef
70,346 corpus weight
- baffe
baffe
70,345 corpus weight
- banalisation
banalisation
70,344 corpus weight
- banqueroute
banqueroute
70,343 corpus weight
What this shows « baffe » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baffe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \baf\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #29,656 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « baffe »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around baffe (IPA \baf\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,656 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for baffe, with forms such as "abffe", "bafe", and "bafef". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Base", "baie", "bave", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is baffe, spelled B-A-F-F-E.
Definition
- 1Gifle.
- 2Coup du sort.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how baffe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ça commençait par de grandes baffes gentilles sur la gueule du chiot qui faisait ce qu’il pouvait pour mordre. Alors ça se terminait par deux ou trois coups de pied bien sentis dans le ventre de l’animal.
Alors quoi : parler, cultiver la délicatesse, aimer l’autre ? Oui. À condition d’endurer les baffes ? Nous allons d’échec en échec.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abffe
- bafe
- bafef
- bbaffe
- bfafe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of baffe - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).