snuff
\snœf\
The verdict
“snuff” is uncommon French (frequency #83,388 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,388
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualifie un film sadomasochiste, qui met en scène torture ou meurtre où la victime est censée ne pas être un acteur mais une personne véritablement torturée ou assassinée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-snuff · snuff · French
snuff · rank #83,388 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,388
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sisal
Nearest frequency peer: sisal (-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 « snuff »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Simo
Simo
16,616 corpus weight
- Simoncini
Simoncini
16,615 corpus weight
- sisal
sisal
16,614 corpus weight
- snuff
snuff
16,613 corpus weight
- sociopoliti…
sociopolitiques
16,612 corpus weight
- Sodebo
Sodebo
16,611 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « snuff » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | snuff |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \snœf\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #83,388 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « snuff » en français
Rare enough to double-check
snuff is uncommon French at frequency #83,388 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \snœf\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qualifie un film sadomasochiste, qui met en scène torture ou meurtre où la victime est censée ne pas être un acteur mais une personne véritablement torturée ou assassinée.".
snuff doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is snuff, spelled S-N-U-F-F.
Definition
- 1Qualifie un film sadomasochiste, qui met en scène torture ou meurtre où la victime est censée ne pas être un acteur mais une personne véritablement torturée ou assassinée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how snuff appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’ombre des « snuff movies » plane.
Tout ce que je sais, c'est qu'ils tournent des snuffs dans une espèce de bunker abandonné dans la forêt près de la future zone d'activités du Neptune
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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