mufti

\muf.ti\

/\muf.ti\/ noun

The verdict

“mufti” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,907. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#39,907
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
9
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Interprète de la loi musulmane.

Corpus desk

Index FR-mufti · mufti · French

mufti · rank #39,907 · 7 variants · 9 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #39,907
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH mucus

Nearest frequency peer: mucus (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « mufti »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « mufti » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

mufti vs muni
60% similar
mufti vs must
60% similar
mufti vs muté
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for mufti
PropertyValue
Headwordmufti
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\muf.ti\
Letters5
Frequency rank#39,907
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mufti »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).muftise place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « mucus » (#39,906), « méritais » (#39,908), « mormons » (#39,905). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « mufti » est au #39,907. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around mufti (IPA \muf.ti\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,907 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Interprète de la loi musulmane.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for mufti, with forms such as "mfuti", "mmufti", and "muffti". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "muni", "must", "muté", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is mufti, spelled M-U-F-T-I.

Definition

  1. 1
    Interprète de la loi musulmane.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how mufti appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La charge de cadis lesker est mise chez les Turcs au rang des dignités ecclésiastiques. […] Le cadis lesker est regardé comme le lieutenant du mufti.
  2. Lorsqu’il s’agit de délibérations importantes, ils [les vizirs] sont admis dans le conseil du cabinet avec le grand-vizir, le mufti & les cadileskers. Ce sont eux qui écrivent ordinairement le nom du grand-seigneur au haut de ses ordonnances, & le sultan pour les autoriser, fait apposer son sceau au-dessous de son nom.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • mfuti
  • mmufti
  • muffti
  • mufit
  • muftti
  • mutfi
  • umfti

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mufti - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

mfuti2mmufti1muffti1mufit2muftti1mutfi2umfti2
Edit distance from "mufti"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mufti"?
"mufti" is spelled M-U-F-T-I. The IPA pronunciation is \muf.ti\.
What does "mufti" mean?
As a noun, "mufti" means: Interprète de la loi musulmane.
What words are commonly confused with "mufti"?
"mufti" is commonly confused with "muni", "must", "muté". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "mufti"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mufti" is \muf.ti\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mufti" come from?
"mufti" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "mufti", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list