bafoue
\ba.fu\
The verdict
“bafoue” is uncommon French (frequency #56,435 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,435
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe bafouer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bafoue · bafoue · French
bafoue · rank #56,435 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,435
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Balagne
Nearest frequency peer: Balagne (+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 « bafoue »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- aurifère
aurifère
43,570 corpus weight
- avouerai
avouerai
43,568 corpus weight
- bafoue
bafoue
43,566 corpus weight
- Balagne
Balagne
43,565 corpus weight
- balancement
balancement
43,564 corpus weight
- bantam
bantam
43,563 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bafoue » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bafoue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ba.fu\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #56,435 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bafoue » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bafoue is uncommon French at frequency #56,435 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ba.fu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for bafoue, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is bafoue, spelled B-A-F-O-U-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe bafouer.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe bafouer.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe bafouer.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe bafouer.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif du verbe bafouer.
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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