beaufs
\bof\
The verdict
“beaufs” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,567. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,567
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de beauf.
Corpus desk
Index FR-beaufs · beaufs · French
beaufs · rank #33,567 · 8 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,567
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bassine
Nearest frequency peer: bassine (-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 « beaufs »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ballot
ballot
66,437 corpus weight
- Barbade
Barbade
66,436 corpus weight
- bassine
bassine
66,435 corpus weight
- beaufs
beaufs
66,434 corpus weight
- Belin
Belin
66,433 corpus weight
- Benelux
Benelux
66,432 corpus weight
What this shows « beaufs » 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 | beaufs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bof\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #33,567 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « beaufs »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around beaufs (IPA \bof\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,567 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de beauf.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for beaufs, with forms such as "baeufs", "bbeaufs", and "beafus". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "beaux", "beauté", "Beaune", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is beaufs, spelled B-E-A-U-F-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de beauf.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- baeufs
- bbeaufs
- beafus
- beauffs
- beaufss
- beausf
- beuafs
- ebaufs
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of beaufs - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "beaufs", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).