baffer
\ba.fe\
The verdict
“baffer” is uncommon French (frequency #73,740 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,740
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Donner une baffe, gifler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-baffer · baffer · French
baffer · rank #73,740 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,740
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH baisseront
Nearest frequency peer: baisseront (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « baffer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ayatollahs
ayatollahs
26,264 corpus weight
- aéroclub
aéroclub
26,263 corpus weight
- baffer
baffer
26,261 corpus weight
- baisseront
baisseront
26,260 corpus weight
- baladez
baladez
26,259 corpus weight
- Bamiléké
Bamiléké
26,258 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « baffer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baffer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ba.fe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #73,740 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « baffer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
baffer is uncommon French at frequency #73,740 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ba.fe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Donner une baffe, gifler.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for baffer, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is baffer, spelled B-A-F-F-E-R.
Definition
- 1Donner une baffe, gifler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how baffer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La tête enfoncée dans les épaules, Anthony marchait sans dire un mot. Il faisait sa mauvaise tête, comme s’il avait honte. Et puis cette démarche de racaille, elle l’aurait baffé.
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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