mufle
French, noun/myfl/
mufle is spelled M-U-F-L-E (5 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 68,913th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mufle is a French masculine noun meaning “muzzle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Extrémité du museau de certains animaux, comme le bœuf, le taureau, et de certains fauves, comme le lion, le…”.
What does mufle mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemuzzle
- 2
masculineboor (person)
adjective
- 1
boorish
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Extrémité du museau de certains animaux, comme le bœuf, le taureau, et de certains fauves, comme le lion, le tigre. 2. Ornements de sculpture qui représentent des mufles d’animaux. 3. Homme dont le caractère est grossier et brutal et qui agit de façon indélicate.
adjective: 1. Dont la conduite est indélicate et grossière.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of mufle
- mufles plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mufle?
- /myfl/
- \myfl\
- [myfl]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to mufle
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mufle in French?
mufle appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).