bouffons
\bu.fɔ̃\
The verdict
“bouffons” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,310. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,310
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de bouffon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bouffons · bouffons · French
bouffons · rank #32,310 · 10 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,310
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bolduc
Nearest frequency peer: bolduc (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « bouffons »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- boisée
boisée
67,693 corpus weight
- bolduc
bolduc
67,692 corpus weight
- bouffons
bouffons
67,691 corpus weight
- bougre
bougre
67,690 corpus weight
- bouse
bouse
67,689 corpus weight
- bouvard
bouvard
67,688 corpus weight
What this shows « bouffons » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bouffons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bu.fɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #32,310 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bouffons »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around bouffons (IPA \bu.fɔ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #32,310 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de bouffon.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for bouffons, with forms such as "bbouffons", "bofufons", and "bouffnos". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "Buffon", "boutons", "boulons", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bouffons, spelled B-O-U-F-F-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de bouffon.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbouffons
- bofufons
- bouffnos
- bouffonns
- bouffonss
- bouffosn
- boufofns
- boufons
- buoffons
- obuffons
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bouffons - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bouffons", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).