bluffer
\blœ.fe\
The verdict
“bluffer” is uncommon French (frequency #62,816 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,816
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire croire qu’on a un jeu différent de celui qu’on a en vérité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bluffer · bluffer · French
bluffer · rank #62,816 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,816
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH blotti
Nearest frequency peer: blotti (-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 « bluffer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bifurquer
bifurquer
37,188 corpus weight
- Björk
Björk
37,187 corpus weight
- blotti
blotti
37,186 corpus weight
- bluffer
bluffer
37,185 corpus weight
- bohort
bohort
37,184 corpus weight
- Bonny
Bonny
37,183 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bluffer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bluffer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \blœ.fe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #62,816 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bluffer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bluffer is uncommon French at frequency #62,816 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \blœ.fe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
bluffer has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is bluffer, spelled B-L-U-F-F-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire croire qu’on a un jeu différent de celui qu’on a en vérité.
- 2Tromper dans le but de profiter, dans des activités liées de près ou de loin à des principes de jeu : relations sociales, amour, commerce, création artistique, conflits.
- 3Séduire.
- 4Étonner, épater.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bluffer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je suis nu comme un sans-chemise Qui n’aurait pas de suspensoir, Hélas ! et je manque de mise Pour bluffer au pocker, le soir.
Tu bluffes, tu n’as pas ce carré d’as dans ta main.
This word in other languages
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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