plouf
\pluf\
The verdict
“plouf” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,072. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,072
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bruit de ce qui tombe dans un liquide.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plouf · plouf · French
plouf · rank #43,072 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,072
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH platonique
Nearest frequency peer: platonique (-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 « plouf »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- plaquée
plaquée
56,932 corpus weight
- platane
platane
56,931 corpus weight
- platonique
platonique
56,930 corpus weight
- plouf
plouf
56,929 corpus weight
- polies
polies
56,927 corpus weight
- pon
pon
56,926 corpus weight
What this shows « plouf » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plouf |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pluf\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #43,072 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « plouf »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around plouf (IPA \pluf\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,072 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Bruit de ce qui tombe dans un liquide.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for plouf, with forms such as "lpouf", "pllouf", and "plofu". 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 also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "plu", "pou", "puf", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is plouf, spelled P-L-O-U-F.
Definition
- 1Bruit de ce qui tombe dans un liquide.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how plouf appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est que la base est un espace de loisirs à la portée de toutes les bourses, surtout des plus modestes qui n’ont pas les moyens de partir en vacances, d’aller à la plage ou même de faire un plouf au X’Eau de Châteaubernard.
Cascades métalliques de vaisselles versées à la vapeur sur les tables… éparpillement de cuillers… bouteilles attrapées au vol… soupières de corps de garde tenant en leurs flancs rebondis des mares écumantes où plongent les louches avec le plouf sonore des grenouilles en alerte…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lpouf
- pllouf
- plofu
- plouff
- pluof
- poluf
- pplouf
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of plouf - 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.
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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Same letter count
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