bafouiller
\ba.fu.je\
The verdict
“bafouiller” is uncommon French (frequency #88,355 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,355
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - S’exprimer d’une façon confuse, incohérente, embarrassée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bafouiller · bafouiller · French
bafouiller · rank #88,355 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,355
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH badiane
Nearest frequency peer: badiane (-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 « bafouiller »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bachi
bachi
11,649 corpus weight
- badaboum
badaboum
11,648 corpus weight
- badiane
badiane
11,647 corpus weight
- bafouiller
bafouiller
11,646 corpus weight
- baignes
baignes
11,645 corpus weight
- baigneuse
baigneuse
11,644 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bafouiller » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bafouiller |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ba.fu.je\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #88,355 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bafouiller » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bafouiller is uncommon French at frequency #88,355 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ba.fu.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for bafouiller in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bafouiller, spelled B-A-F-O-U-I-L-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1S’exprimer d’une façon confuse, incohérente, embarrassée.
- 2Se tromper dans une réponse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bafouiller appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bafouiller des explications.
… et encore qu’il fût désormais consacré avocat, il semblait qu’il allait, dans sa réplique, terriblement bafouiller.
Synonyms
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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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