spliff
\splif\
The verdict
“spliff” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Joint de cannabis.
Corpus desk
Index FR-spliff · spliff · French
spliff · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | spliff |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \splif\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « spliff » en français
Rare enough to double-check
spliff is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \splif\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
spliff has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 spliff, spelled S-P-L-I-F-F.
Definition
- 1Joint de cannabis.
- 2Depuis quʼj'ai arrêté les spliffs / Jʼregarde plus la télé — (Je fume pu dʼshit, Stupeflip, 2003)
- 3Cette fois, Snoop Dogg semble avoir inhalé un spliff gros comme le pilier de Notre-Dame de Paris qui porta Paul Claudel à se convertir au catholicisme et à s’arracher à son « bagne matérialiste », une fulgurante nuit de Noël 1886. — (Fabrice Pliskin, « De Diam’s à Snoop Dogg : quand les stars deviennent fans de Dieu », nouvelobs.com, 7 juin 2013)
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.