touffu
\tu.fy\
The verdict
“touffu” is uncommon French (frequency #50,548 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,548
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est en touffe ; qui est épais ou bien garni.
Corpus desk
Index FR-touffu · touffu · French
touffu · rank #50,548 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,548
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH togolaise
Nearest frequency peer: togolaise (-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 « touffu »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Thorez
Thorez
49,457 corpus weight
- Tiago
Tiago
49,456 corpus weight
- tison
tison
49,455 corpus weight
- togolaise
togolaise
49,454 corpus weight
- touffu
touffu
49,453 corpus weight
- transmit
transmit
49,450 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « touffu » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | touffu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tu.fy\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #50,548 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « touffu » en français
Rare enough to double-check
touffu is uncommon French at frequency #50,548 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \tu.fy\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
touffu has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is touffu, spelled T-O-U-F-F-U.
Definition
- 1Qui est en touffe ; qui est épais ou bien garni.
- 2Qui est encombré ; qui est chargé à l’excès.
- 3En parlant des participants dans une course hippique, difficiles à départager.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how touffu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Toute cette végétation disparaît peu à peu devant l'envahissement des cépées de plus en plus touffues.
Une barbe touffue.
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); 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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