souf
The verdict
“souf” is uncommon French (frequency #67,125 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,125
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Souffle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-souf · souf · French
souf · rank #67,125 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,125
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH soucié
Nearest frequency peer: soucié (-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 « souf »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sommité
sommité
32,880 corpus weight
- sonora
sonora
32,879 corpus weight
- soucié
soucié
32,877 corpus weight
- souf
souf
32,876 corpus weight
- specimen
specimen
32,875 corpus weight
- Statham
Statham
32,872 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « souf » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | souf |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #67,125 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « souf » en français
Rare enough to double-check
souf is uncommon French at frequency #67,125 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Souffle.".
No misspelling variants are generated for souf in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 souf, spelled S-O-U-F.
Definition
- 1Souffle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how souf appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Li kenbe souf li.
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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