bouffait
\bu.fɛ\
The verdict
“bouffait” is uncommon French (frequency #72,971 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,971
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe bouffer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bouffait · bouffait · French
bouffait · rank #72,971 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,971
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bouclent
Nearest frequency peer: bouclent (-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 « bouffait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Borduas
Borduas
27,032 corpus weight
- bouclent
bouclent
27,031 corpus weight
- bouffait
bouffait
27,030 corpus weight
- bougeront
bougeront
27,028 corpus weight
- bouillis
bouillis
27,027 corpus weight
- bourgades
bourgades
27,026 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bouffait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bouffait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bu.fɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #72,971 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bouffait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bouffait is uncommon French at frequency #72,971 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bu.fɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe bouffer.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for bouffait in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is bouffait, spelled B-O-U-F-F-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe bouffer.
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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