huff
\hʌf\
The verdict
“huff” is uncommon French (frequency #56,654 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,654
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Souffler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-huff · huff · French
huff · rank #56,654 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,654
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Houdini
Nearest frequency peer: Houdini (-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 « huff »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- horrifique
horrifique
43,349 corpus weight
- Houdini
Houdini
43,348 corpus weight
- huff
huff
43,347 corpus weight
- hutch
hutch
43,346 corpus weight
- Huygens
Huygens
43,345 corpus weight
- hydromel
hydromel
43,344 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « huff » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | huff |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \hʌf\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #56,654 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « huff » en français
Rare enough to double-check
huff is uncommon French at frequency #56,654 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \hʌf\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
huff has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is huff, spelled H-U-F-F.
Definition
- 1Souffler.
- 2Sniffer.
- 3Inhaler des produits ménagers ou industriels dans un but récréatif.
- 4Voler.
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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