buffles
\byfl\
The verdict
“buffles” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,955. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,955
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de buffle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-buffles · buffles · French
buffles · rank #48,955 · 9 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,955
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH béatitude
Nearest frequency peer: béatitude (+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 « buffles »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- boulonnais
boulonnais
51,049 corpus weight
- branles
branles
51,048 corpus weight
- buffles
buffles
51,046 corpus weight
- béatitude
béatitude
51,045 corpus weight
- bénignes
bénignes
51,044 corpus weight
- cakes
cakes
51,043 corpus weight
What this shows « buffles » 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 | buffles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \byfl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #48,955 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « buffles »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around buffles (IPA \byfl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #48,955 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de buffle.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for buffles, with forms such as "bbuffles", "bfufles", and "buffels". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "bulles", "buffet", "buffle", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 buffles, spelled B-U-F-F-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de buffle.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbuffles
- bfufles
- buffels
- buffless
- bufflles
- bufflse
- bufles
- buflfes
- ubffles
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of buffles - 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
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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 (9 here; floor ≥5).