souffleur
\su.flœʁ\
The verdict
“souffleur” is uncommon French (frequency #50,517 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,517
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui souffle comme ayant peine à respirer ; ne se dit guère que des chevaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-souffleur · souffleur · French
souffleur · rank #50,517 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,517
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sophrologie
Nearest frequency peer: sophrologie (-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 « souffleur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- soldés
soldés
49,487 corpus weight
- Soleure
Soleure
49,486 corpus weight
- sophrologie
sophrologie
49,485 corpus weight
- souffleur
souffleur
49,484 corpus weight
- spaces
spaces
49,483 corpus weight
- spies
spies
49,482 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « souffleur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | souffleur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \su.flœʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #50,517 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « souffleur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
souffleur is uncommon French at frequency #50,517 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \su.flœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui souffle comme ayant peine à respirer ; ne se dit guère que des chevaux.".
souffleur doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is souffleur, spelled S-O-U-F-F-L-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Qui souffle comme ayant peine à respirer ; ne se dit guère que des chevaux.
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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