Bouffard
\bu.faʁ\
The verdict
“Bouffard” is uncommon French (frequency #80,937 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,937
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bouffard · Bouffard · French
Bouffard · rank #80,937 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,937
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH boucau
Nearest frequency peer: boucau (-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 « Bouffard »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bootstrap
bootstrap
19,069 corpus weight
- bossue
bossue
19,067 corpus weight
- boucau
boucau
19,065 corpus weight
- Bouffard
Bouffard
19,064 corpus weight
- bougeais
bougeais
19,062 corpus weight
- Boumediene
Boumediene
19,060 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Bouffard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bouffard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bu.faʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #80,937 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Bouffard » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Bouffard is uncommon French at frequency #80,937 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \bu.faʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Bouffard has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Bouffard, spelled B-O-U-F-F-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Bouffard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Il y aura un peu de tout. Les artistes seront présents pour partager leur passion », indique la présidente de l’association, Émilie Bouffard.
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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