bluffe
\blœf\
The verdict
“bluffe” is uncommon French (frequency #74,606 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,606
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe bluffer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bluffe · bluffe · French
bluffe · rank #74,606 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,606
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bipèdes
Nearest frequency peer: bipèdes (-2 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 « bluffe »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bind
bind
25,399 corpus weight
- binks
binks
25,398 corpus weight
- bipèdes
bipèdes
25,397 corpus weight
- bluffe
bluffe
25,395 corpus weight
- bosseurs
bosseurs
25,393 corpus weight
- Boswell
Boswell
25,392 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bluffe » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bluffe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \blœf\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #74,606 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bluffe » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bluffe is uncommon French at frequency #74,606 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \blœf\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for bluffe in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is bluffe, spelled B-L-U-F-F-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe bluffer.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe bluffer.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe bluffer.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe bluffer.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif du verbe bluffer.
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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