bafouille
\ba.fuj\
The verdict
“bafouille” is uncommon French (frequency #64,254 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,254
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lettre, courrier, missive.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bafouille · bafouille · French
bafouille · rank #64,254 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,254
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH baas
Nearest frequency peer: baas (-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 « bafouille »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Azzedine
Azzedine
35,750 corpus weight
- aérobic
aérobic
35,749 corpus weight
- baas
baas
35,748 corpus weight
- bafouille
bafouille
35,747 corpus weight
- bait
bait
35,746 corpus weight
- Baka
Baka
35,745 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bafouille » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bafouille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.fuj\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #64,254 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bafouille » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bafouille is uncommon French at frequency #64,254 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ba.fuj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Lettre, courrier, missive.".
No misspelling variants are generated for bafouille in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 bafouille, spelled B-A-F-O-U-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Lettre, courrier, missive.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bafouille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’ai reçu une petite bafouille de mon frangin.
J’ai été surprise et ravie : moi qui pensais m’échiner pendant deux jours pour rédiger une bafouille à quelqu’un de si important, je n’y ai passé que deux heures, au « bureau », pendant les temps morts.
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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