bouffeur
\bu.fœʁ\
The verdict
“bouffeur” is uncommon French (frequency #72,125 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,125
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui bouffe, qui mange.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bouffeur · bouffeur · French
bouffeur · rank #72,125 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,125
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH borna
Nearest frequency peer: borna (-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 « bouffeur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bonet
bonet
27,879 corpus weight
- boring
boring
27,878 corpus weight
- borna
borna
27,877 corpus weight
- bouffeur
bouffeur
27,876 corpus weight
- bouffonne
bouffonne
27,875 corpus weight
- bouquiner
bouquiner
27,874 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bouffeur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bouffeur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bu.fœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #72,125 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bouffeur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bouffeur is uncommon French at frequency #72,125 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bu.fœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for bouffeur in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bouffeur, spelled B-O-U-F-F-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui bouffe, qui mange.
- 2Anticlérical
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bouffeur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Alors comme ça, ton copain, c’est un bouffeur de salade ?
Les gros bouffeurs creusent leurs tombes avec leurs dents.
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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