malbouffe

/\mal.buf\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#36,481

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

malbouffe is aFrenchnoun. It means: Alimentation qui est spécialement mauvaise pour la santé, comportant une forte teneur en graisses ou en sucres. Pronounced \mal.buf\.

Key facts for malbouffe
PropertyValue
Headwordmalbouffe
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mal.buf\
Letters9
Frequency rank#36,481
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of malbouffe in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for malbouffe is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mal.buf\. Corpus data places it at rank #36,481 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Alimentation qui est spécialement mauvaise pour la santé, comportant une forte teneur en graisses ou en sucres.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for malbouffe, with forms such as "amlbouffe", "mablouffe", and "malbbouffe". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is malbouffe, spelled M-A-L-B-O-U-F-F-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Alimentation qui est spécialement mauvaise pour la santé, comportant une forte teneur en graisses ou en sucres.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: amlbouffe,mablouffe,malbbouffe,malbofufe,malboufe,malboufef,malbuoffe,mallbouffe,malobuffe,mlabouffe,mmalbouffe

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for malbouffe

Misspelling Variants of "malbouffe"

amlbouffe9mablouffe9malbbouffe10malbofufe9malboufe8malboufef9malbuoffe9mallbouffe10
Misspelling Variants of "malbouffe"

Frequency rank: #36,481 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "malbouffe"?
"malbouffe" is spelled M-A-L-B-O-U-F-F-E. The IPA pronunciation is \mal.buf\.
What does "malbouffe" mean?
As a noun, "malbouffe" means: Alimentation qui est spécialement mauvaise pour la santé, comportant une forte teneur en graisses ou en sucres.
What are common misspellings of "malbouffe"?
Common misspellings include "amlbouffe", "mablouffe", "malbbouffe", "malbofufe", "malboufe". The correct spelling is "malbouffe".
How do you pronounce "malbouffe"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "malbouffe" is \mal.buf\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "malbouffe" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.