touffe

\tuf\

/\tuf\/ noun

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The verdict

“touffe” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,377. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#28,377
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
10
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ensemble d’herbes, de fleurs, de cheveux, de poils, etc., naturellement rapprochés.

Corpus desk

Index FR-touffe · touffe · French

touffe · rank #28,377 · 6 variants · 10 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #28,377
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH tordus

Nearest frequency peer: tordus (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « touffe »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « touffe » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

touffe vs toute
67% similar
touffe vs touré
50% similar
touffe vs tourné
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for touffe
PropertyValue
Headwordtouffe
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tuf\
Letters6
Frequency rank#28,377
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « touffe »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).touffese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « tordus » (#28,376), « toulousaine » (#28,378), « théoricien » (#28,375). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « touffe » est au #28,377. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around touffe (IPA \tuf\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,377 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for touffe, with forms such as "otuffe", "tofufe", and "toufe". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "toute", "touré", "tourné", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is touffe, spelled T-O-U-F-F-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ensemble d’herbes, de fleurs, de cheveux, de poils, etc., naturellement rapprochés.
  2. 2
    Toison pubienne, et par métonymie, sexe des femmes.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how touffe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Presque aussitôt une tête se pencha hors de la voiture pour voir ce qui se passait, une grosse tête pâle et grasse, une touffe de cheveux sur le front : c’était Napoléon.
  2. Soudain, au bord du bassin, nous vîmes un petit chat qui buvait. Nous nous dissimulâmes derrière une touffe de seringas.

Synonyms

houppehuppe

This word in other languages

tuft(English)Büschel(Deutsch)tufo(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • otuffe
  • tofufe
  • toufe
  • toufef
  • ttouffe
  • tuoffe

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of touffe - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

otuffe2tofufe2toufe1toufef2ttouffe1tuoffe2
Edit distance from "touffe"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "touffe"?
"touffe" is spelled T-O-U-F-F-E. The IPA pronunciation is \tuf\.
What does "touffe" mean?
As a noun, "touffe" means: Ensemble d’herbes, de fleurs, de cheveux, de poils, etc., naturellement rapprochés.
What words are commonly confused with "touffe"?
"touffe" is commonly confused with "toute", "touré", "tourné". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "touffe"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "touffe" is \tuf\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "touffe" come from?
"touffe" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "touffe", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

tordus#28,376sondés#28,354sifflé#28,350should#28,349

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

sunny6 variantsaverse6 variantsblah6 variantspast6 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list