rufo
\ʀˈu.fu\
The verdict
“rufo” is uncommon French (frequency #94,224 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,224
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de rufar.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rufo · rufo · French
rufo · rank #94,224 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,224
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH Rudel
Nearest frequency peer: Rudel (-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 « rufo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- royans
royans
5,780 corpus weight
- Ruanda
Ruanda
5,779 corpus weight
- Rudel
Rudel
5,778 corpus weight
- rufo
rufo
5,777 corpus weight
- ruisselant
ruisselant
5,776 corpus weight
- réactionnel
réactionnel
5,774 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rufo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rufo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʀˈu.fu\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #94,224 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rufo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rufo is uncommon French at frequency #94,224 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʀˈu.fu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de rufar.".
rufo has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is rufo, spelled R-U-F-O.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de rufar.
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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