beauf
\bof\
The verdict
“beauf” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,866. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,866
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Beau-frère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-beauf · beauf · French
beauf · rank #21,866 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,866
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bass
Nearest frequency peer: bass (-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 « beauf »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- balayage
balayage
78,138 corpus weight
- bass
bass
78,136 corpus weight
- beauf
beauf
78,135 corpus weight
- billetterie
billetterie
78,134 corpus weight
- binôme
binôme
78,133 corpus weight
- bistrot
bistrot
78,132 corpus weight
What this shows « beauf » 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 | beauf |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bof\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #21,866 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « beauf »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around beauf (IPA \bof\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,866 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for beauf, with forms such as "baeuf", "bbeauf", and "beafu". 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, "beuh", "beur", "beef", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 beauf, spelled B-E-A-U-F.
Definition
- 1Beau-frère.
- 2Personne vulgaire, étroite d’esprit, inculte, de mauvais goût.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how beauf appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand il dit qu’il hait la droite, papa lui hurle qu’il est le dernier des poujadistes et alors mon beauf, il monte sur ses grands chevaux et il proteste : « Voilà ce que j’appelle un argument stalinien. » Mon beauf, c’est sûr, il aime pas la droite.
Hé, dis-donc ! c’est normal que ça ralentisse comme ça quand tu passes la quatrième ? — Ben ouais, ça fait ça sur toutes les dianes. — La deux-chevaux de mon beauf, elle a vachement plus la patate. — Ouais… mais ton beauf, c’est pas pareil.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- baeuf
- bbeauf
- beafu
- beauff
- beuaf
- ebauf
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of beauf - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 (6 here; floor ≥5).