bouffeurs
\bu.fœʁ\
The verdict
“bouffeurs” is uncommon French (frequency #79,108 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,108
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de bouffeur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bouffeurs · bouffeurs · French
bouffeurs · rank #79,108 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,108
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bottier
Nearest frequency peer: bottier (-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 « bouffeurs »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- borough
borough
20,896 corpus weight
- botta
botta
20,895 corpus weight
- bottier
bottier
20,894 corpus weight
- bouffeurs
bouffeurs
20,893 corpus weight
- Bouhanni
Bouhanni
20,892 corpus weight
- bouquetin
bouquetin
20,891 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bouffeurs » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bouffeurs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bu.fœʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #79,108 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bouffeurs » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bouffeurs is uncommon French at frequency #79,108 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bu.fœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de bouffeur.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bouffeurs, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is bouffeurs, spelled B-O-U-F-F-E-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de bouffeur.
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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