buffet
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,356
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
buffet is aFrenchnoun. It means: Meuble massif composé de tiroirs, placards et étagères, qui sert à entreposer l’argenterie, la vaisselle ou le linge de table. Pronounced \by.fɛ\. Often confused with Buffon and buffle.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | buffet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \by.fɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #11,356 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for buffet is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \by.fɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #11,356 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for buffet, with forms such as "bbuffet", "bfufet", and "bufeft". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "Buffon", "buffle", "bullet", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is buffet, spelled B-U-F-F-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Meuble massif composé de tiroirs, placards et étagères, qui sert à entreposer l’argenterie, la vaisselle ou le linge de table.
- 2Table où sont proposés des plats en libre-service.
- 3Réception où les convives se servent eux-mêmes.
- 4Ensemble d'idées ou de concepts hétéroclites parmi lesquels tout intéressé pourra choisir.
- 5Snack, bar restaurant installé dans les gares de chemins de fer où les voyageurs trouvent soit un repas préparé, soit des provisions à emporter.
- 6Menuiserie où sont renfermées les orgues ou un jeu d’orgue en particulier. Ou petit orgue tout entier.
- 7Table de pierre ou de marbre qui supporte plusieurs bassins en gradins où l’eau descend en nappes, en cascades, etc.
- 8Ventre, torse.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbuffet,bfufet,bufeft,bufet,buffett,buffte,ubffet
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for buffet
Misspelling Variants of "buffet"
Frequency rank: #11,356 in French
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