mufle
\myfl\
The verdict
“mufle” is uncommon French (frequency #69,249 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,249
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Extrémité du museau de certains animaux, comme le bœuf, le taureau, et de certains fauves, comme le lion, le tigre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mufle · mufle · French
mufle · rank #69,249 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,249
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH murmurent
Nearest frequency peer: murmurent (+2 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 « mufle »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Moët
Moët
30,756 corpus weight
- MPA
MPA
30,755 corpus weight
- mufle
mufle
30,752 corpus weight
- murmurent
murmurent
30,750 corpus weight
- mutin
mutin
30,749 corpus weight
- Mykonos
Mykonos
30,748 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mufle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mufle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \myfl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #69,249 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mufle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mufle is uncommon French at frequency #69,249 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \myfl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for mufle in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is mufle, spelled M-U-F-L-E.
Definition
- 1Extrémité du museau de certains animaux, comme le bœuf, le taureau, et de certains fauves, comme le lion, le tigre.
- 2Ornements de sculpture qui représentent des mufles d’animaux.
- 3Homme dont le caractère est grossier et brutal et qui agit de façon indélicate.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mufle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une vache qui paissait l’herbe abroutie du talus, leva son mufle vers lui…
Aussi n’est-il pas aisé de quitter le grand chemin et de s’enfoncer dans les rares sentiers, car on peut à tout moment se rencontrer nez à mufle avec les plus redoutables de tous les carnassiers […].
This word in other languages
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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