buffets
\by.fɛ\
The verdict
“buffets” is uncommon French (frequency #57,131 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,131
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de buffet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-buffets · buffets · French
buffets · rank #57,131 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,131
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bucher
Nearest frequency peer: bucher (-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 « buffets »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- brillaient
brillaient
42,873 corpus weight
- brouillée
brouillée
42,872 corpus weight
- bucher
bucher
42,871 corpus weight
- buffets
buffets
42,870 corpus weight
- Bukavu
Bukavu
42,869 corpus weight
- bulldozers
bulldozers
42,868 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « buffets » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | buffets |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \by.fɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #57,131 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « buffets » en français
Rare enough to double-check
buffets is uncommon French at frequency #57,131 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \by.fɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de buffet.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for buffets, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is buffets, spelled B-U-F-F-E-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de buffet.
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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