souffler
\su.fle\
The verdict
“souffler” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #11,667 in French word frequency and used as a verb.
- #11,667
- frequency rank, French
- 8
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pousser de l’air hors de la bouche.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | souffler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \su.fle\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #11,667 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “souffler” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for souffler is 8 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \su.fle\. Corpus data places it at rank #11,667 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 14 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for souffler, with forms such as "osuffler", "sofufler", and "souffelr". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "soûler", "souffre", "souffrir", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 souffler, spelled S-O-U-F-F-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Pousser de l’air hors de la bouche.
- 2Faire une pause pour reprendre haleine ; respirer avec effort.
- 3Pousser, agiter l’air.
- 4Envoyer de l’air sur quelque chose, dans quelque chose.
- 5Déplacer ou détruire par un mouvement violent d’air ou de gaz.
- 6Renifler, flairer une jument.
- 7Parler, par ellipse de « ne souffler mot ».
- 8Faire naître, exciter.
- 9Dire à quelqu’un sa leçon, son rôle, à voix basse, de façon à n’être entendu que de lui, les endroits de sa leçon, de son rôle dont il ne se souvient plus.
- 10Dire quelque chose à quelqu’un à voix basse.
- 11Ôter un pion à celui contre qui l’on joue, parce qu’il ne s’en est pas servi pour prendre un autre pion qui était en prise.
- 12Enlever, prendre, voler.
- 13Dire, et spécialement dire dans un souffle.
- 14Causer une grande surprise, provoquer l'étonnement.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: osuffler,sofufler,souffelr,soufflerr,souffller,soufflre,soufler,souflfer,ssouffler,suoffler
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of souffler - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “souffler”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-O-U-F-F-L-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \su.fle\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “soûler” - see the side-by-side comparison. souffler vs soûler
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.