bouffi
\bu.fi\
The verdict
“bouffi” is uncommon French (frequency #67,333 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,333
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Enflé de façon malsaine, maladive.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bouffi · bouffi · French
bouffi · rank #67,333 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,333
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bory
Nearest frequency peer: bory (-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 « bouffi »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bonzes
bonzes
32,671 corpus weight
- bory
bory
32,669 corpus weight
- bouffi
bouffi
32,668 corpus weight
- bougeaient
bougeaient
32,667 corpus weight
- Boutros
Boutros
32,666 corpus weight
- brame
brame
32,665 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bouffi » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bouffi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bu.fi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #67,333 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bouffi » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bouffi is uncommon French at frequency #67,333 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \bu.fi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for bouffi in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bouffi, spelled B-O-U-F-F-I.
Definition
- 1Enflé de façon malsaine, maladive.
- 2Désigne le hareng présenté entier, légèrement fumé et salé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bouffi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des visages encore bouffis de sommeil apparurent aux fenêtres ; des groupes d’hommes, en bras de chemise, de femmes en camisole et en bonnet de nuit, se formèrent, animés, sur le bas des portes.
Tous les jours, je voyais cette grosse dame bouffie, importante, ressemblant à une oie gavée, se promener dans le jardin, vêtue à la russe, avec des perles et, quel que fût le temps, une ombrelle, […]
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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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