bouffonnerie
\bu.fɔn.ʁi\
The verdict
“bouffonnerie” is uncommon French (frequency #75,454 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,454
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jeu théâtral de bouffon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bouffonnerie · bouffonnerie · French
bouffonnerie · rank #75,454 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,454
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Boucicaut
Nearest frequency peer: Boucicaut (-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 « bouffonnerie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Borja
Borja
24,550 corpus weight
- bouchage
bouchage
24,549 corpus weight
- Boucicaut
Boucicaut
24,548 corpus weight
- bouffonnerie
bouffonnerie
24,547 corpus weight
- boulier
boulier
24,545 corpus weight
- bouture
bouture
24,544 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bouffonnerie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bouffonnerie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bu.fɔn.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #75,454 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bouffonnerie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bouffonnerie is uncommon French at frequency #75,454 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bu.fɔn.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for bouffonnerie in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is bouffonnerie, spelled B-O-U-F-F-O-N-N-E-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Jeu théâtral de bouffon.
- 2Ce qu’on fait ou ce qu’on dit pour exciter le rire ; plaisanterie grossière.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bouffonnerie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Lettres à l'Étrangère, […] malgré cette jactance énorme, qui le fait se gonfler jusqu'à la bouffonnerie, sont le plus émouvant, le plus angoissant martyrologe qui se puisse imaginer d'une vie d'artiste, […].
[…] ; la théologie morale des socialistes sérieux n'est pas une des moindres bouffonneries de notre temps.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).