pouffer
\pu.fe\
The verdict
“pouffer” is uncommon French (frequency #74,290 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,290
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - petit rire étouffé ou mal contenu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pouffer · pouffer · French
pouffer · rank #74,290 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,290
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH polythéistes
Nearest frequency peer: polythéistes (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « pouffer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- polysémie
polysémie
25,714 corpus weight
- polytechnic…
polytechniciens
25,713 corpus weight
- polythéistes
polythéistes
25,712 corpus weight
- pouffer
pouffer
25,711 corpus weight
- poétiquement
poétiquement
25,710 corpus weight
- pratiqua
pratiqua
25,709 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pouffer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pouffer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pu.fe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #74,290 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pouffer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pouffer is uncommon French at frequency #74,290 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pu.fe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for pouffer, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is pouffer, spelled P-O-U-F-F-E-R.
Definition
- 1petit rire étouffé ou mal contenu.
- 2Souffler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pouffer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Depuis l’accident qui était arrivé à sa mâchoire, elle avait renoncé à prendre la peine de pouffer effectivement et se livrait à la place à une mimique conventionnelle qui signifiait, sans fatigue ni risques pour elle, qu’elle riait aux larmes.
La télépathie leur avait révélé sur Saturne des choses stupéfiantes. Sur Terre, ils ne découvraient que des faits incompréhensibles ou les faisant pouffer de rire.
Synonyms
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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