bête à bouffer du foin
\bɛ.t‿a bu.fe dy fwɛ̃\
The verdict
“bête à bouffer du foin” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adjective - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 22
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Variante de bête à manger du foin
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bête à bouffer du foin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bɛ.t‿a bu.fe dy fwɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bête à bouffer du foin” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bête à bouffer du foin is 22 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bɛ.t‿a bu.fe dy fwɛ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Variante de bête à manger du foin".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bête à bouffer du foin, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 bête à bouffer du foin, spelled B-Ê-T-E- -À- -B-O-U-F-F-E-R- -D-U- -F-O-I-N.
Definition
- 1Variante de bête à manger du foin
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “bête à bouffer du foin”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-Ê-T-E- -À- -B-O-U-F-F-E-R- -D-U- -F-O-I-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \bɛ.t‿a bu.fe dy fwɛ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.