buffalo
\by.fa.lo\
The verdict
“buffalo” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,619. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,619
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bison.
Corpus desk
Index FR-buffalo · buffalo · French
buffalo · rank #14,619 · 8 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #14,619
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bâtie
Nearest frequency peer: bâtie (+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 « buffalo »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bricolage
bricolage
85,385 corpus weight
- brûlant
brûlant
85,384 corpus weight
- buffalo
buffalo
85,382 corpus weight
- bâtie
bâtie
85,381 corpus weight
- camionnette
camionnette
85,380 corpus weight
- captain
captain
85,379 corpus weight
What this shows « buffalo » 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 | buffalo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \by.fa.lo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #14,619 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « buffalo »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around buffalo (IPA \by.fa.lo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,619 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Bison.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for buffalo, with forms such as "bbuffalo", "bfufalo", and "bufaflo". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "buffle", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 buffalo, spelled B-U-F-F-A-L-O.
Definition
- 1Bison.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how buffalo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Voici dans ce sac des vivres pour deux jours ; je vous laisse cette carabine rayée qui dans ma main n’a jamais manqué le but ; […], de la poudre et des balles dans ces cornes de buffalos.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbuffalo
- bfufalo
- bufaflo
- bufalo
- buffallo
- buffaol
- bufflao
- ubffalo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of buffalo - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "buffalo", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).