bluffante
\blø.fɑ̃t\
The verdict
“bluffante” is uncommon French (frequency #80,925 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,925
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de bluffant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bluffante · bluffante · French
bluffante · rank #80,925 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,925
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bloquage
Nearest frequency peer: bloquage (-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 « bluffante »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bloquage
bloquage
19,077 corpus weight
- bluffante
bluffante
19,076 corpus weight
- Blériot
Blériot
19,075 corpus weight
- Bodart
Bodart
19,074 corpus weight
- bogie
bogie
19,073 corpus weight
- boiserie
boiserie
19,072 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bluffante » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bluffante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \blø.fɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #80,925 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bluffante » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bluffante is uncommon French at frequency #80,925 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \blø.fɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de bluffant.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bluffante, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 bluffante, spelled B-L-U-F-F-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de bluffant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bluffante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous n’affirmons pas ici que Léa Griton est hypermnésique, mais elle a la faculté, assez bluffante, se semer dans la conversation une date précise, associée à un événement important de son existence.
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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