Buffon
\by.fɔ̃\
The verdict
“Buffon” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,141. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,141
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille français.
Corpus desk
Index FR-buffon · Buffon · French
Buffon · rank #18,141 · 7 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,141
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH brûlent
Nearest frequency peer: brûlent (-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 « Buffon »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- boîtier
boîtier
81,863 corpus weight
- brousse
brousse
81,862 corpus weight
- brûlent
brûlent
81,861 corpus weight
- Buffon
Buffon
81,860 corpus weight
- cadenas
cadenas
81,859 corpus weight
- caprice
caprice
81,857 corpus weight
What this shows « Buffon » 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 | Buffon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \by.fɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #18,141 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Buffon »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Buffon (IPA \by.fɔ̃\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #18,141 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille français.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Buffon, with forms such as "bbuffon", "bfufon", and "buffno". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "Burton", "button", "buffet", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Buffon, spelled B-U-F-F-O-N.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille français.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Buffon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Puis, il s’empara du menu de la boutique et, crayon en main, expliqua le mécanisme de l’appareil que M. de Buffon avait établi sur ce Belvédère, et qui sonnait régulièrement et exactement le milieu du jour…
Le Zoo de La Palmyre participe ainsi aujourd’hui à plus de 50 programmes européens d’élevage, dont ceux de l’orang-outan de Bornéo, de la girafe de Rothschild, du vari roux, de l’ara de Buffon, du guépard, du zèbre de Grévy…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbuffon
- bfufon
- buffno
- buffonn
- bufofn
- bufon
- ubffon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Buffon - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).