gaffeur
\ɡa.fœʁ\
The verdict
“gaffeur” is uncommon French (frequency #79,339 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,339
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui commet une gaffe, des gaffes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gaffeur · gaffeur · French
gaffeur · rank #79,339 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,339
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH furoncle
Nearest frequency peer: furoncle (-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 « gaffeur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fromm
fromm
20,665 corpus weight
- fucks
fucks
20,664 corpus weight
- furoncle
furoncle
20,663 corpus weight
- gaffeur
gaffeur
20,662 corpus weight
- galactose
galactose
20,661 corpus weight
- Gance
Gance
20,660 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gaffeur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gaffeur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡa.fœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #79,339 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gaffeur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gaffeur is uncommon French at frequency #79,339 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡa.fœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celui qui commet une gaffe, des gaffes.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for gaffeur, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is gaffeur, spelled G-A-F-F-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui commet une gaffe, des gaffes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gaffeur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un gaffeur sachant gaffer
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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