touffes

\tuf\

/\tuf\/ noun

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The verdict

“touffes” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,702. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#43,702
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
7
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de touffe.

Corpus desk

Index FR-touffes · touffes · French

touffes · rank #43,702 · 8 variants · 7 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #43,702
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH tourbillons

Nearest frequency peer: tourbillons (+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 « touffes »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « touffes » 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).

touffes vs toutes
71% similar
touffes vs truffe
71% similar
touffes vs tounes
71% similar

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

Key facts for touffes
PropertyValue
Headwordtouffes
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tuf\
Letters7
Frequency rank#43,702
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « touffes »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).touffesse 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 « tourbillons » (#43,703), « tirerait » (#43,700), « tourbières » (#43,704). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « touffes » est au #43,702. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around touffes (IPA \tuf\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,702 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de touffe.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for touffes, with forms such as "otuffes", "tofufes", and "toufefs". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "toutes", "truffe", "tounes", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is touffes, spelled T-O-U-F-F-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de touffe.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. À la vue de plusieurs touffes de pâquerettes et de quelques boutons d’or épargnés par les premières gelées blanches, la Goualeuse ne put retenir de nouvelles exclamations de plaisir.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • otuffes
  • tofufes
  • toufefs
  • toufes
  • touffess
  • touffse
  • ttouffes
  • tuoffes

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of touffes - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

otuffes2tofufes2toufefs2toufes1touffess1touffse2ttouffes1tuoffes2
Edit distance from "touffes"

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 "touffes"?
"touffes" is spelled T-O-U-F-F-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \tuf\.
What does "touffes" mean?
As a noun, "touffes" means: Pluriel de touffe.
What words are commonly confused with "touffes"?
"touffes" is commonly confused with "toutes", "truffe", "tounes". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "touffes"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "touffes" is \tuf\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "touffes" come from?
"touffes" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Thouars#43,697Trotsky#43,707targuer#43,690venions#43,715

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

thorn8 variantsteigne8 variantsVarela8 variantsverrues8 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list