raffut
\ʁa.fy\
The verdict
“raffut” is uncommon French (frequency #97,335 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,335
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - Vacarme, grand bruit, tapage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-raffut · raffut · French
raffut · rank #97,335 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,335
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rachitique
Nearest frequency peer: rachitique (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “raffut”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- querelleur
querelleur
2,669 corpus weight
- questi
questi
2,668 corpus weight
- rachitique
rachitique
2,667 corpus weight
- raffut
raffut
2,666 corpus weight
- Rafinha
Rafinha
2,665 corpus weight
- ramoneurs
ramoneurs
2,663 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “raffut” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | raffut |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁa.fy\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #97,335 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “raffut” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
raffut is uncommon French at frequency #97,335 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁa.fy\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for raffut, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 raffut, spelled R-A-F-F-U-T.
Definition
- 1Vacarme, grand bruit, tapage.
- 2Technique utilisée par le porteur du ballon pour repousser, de sa main libre ouverte ou du bras, le haut du corps d’un adversaire cherchant à le plaquer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how raffut appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Toute petite, dès la naissance, la voix de Clara avait préservé la maison du raffut de la ville.
Ils ont fait un raffut de tous les diables.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "raffut", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.