touffue

\tu.fy\

/\tu.fy\/ adj

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The verdict

“touffue” is uncommon French (frequency #64,839 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#64,839
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de touffu.

Corpus desk

Index FR-touffue · touffue · French

touffue · rank #64,839 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #64,839
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH tourist

Nearest frequency peer: tourist (+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 « touffue »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « touffue » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for touffue
PropertyValue
Headwordtouffue
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\tu.fy\
Letters7
Frequency rank#64,839
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « touffue » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.touffuetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « tourist » (#64,840), « Tournay » (#64,841), « tond » (#64,836). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « touffue » est au #64,839. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

touffue is uncommon French at frequency #64,839 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \tu.fy\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de touffu.".

touffue doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is touffue, spelled T-O-U-F-F-U-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Féminin singulier de touffu.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Arrachez à leur pays ces deux espèces de moutons, transportez-les en Suisse ou en France : le mouton de montagne y paîtra séparé, quoique dans une prairie basse et touffue ; les moutons de plaine y paîtront l’un contre l’autre, quoique sur une alpe.

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 "touffue"?
"touffue" is spelled T-O-U-F-F-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \tu.fy\.
What does "touffue" mean?
As an adjective, "touffue" means: Féminin singulier de touffu.
How do you pronounce "touffue"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "touffue" is \tu.fy\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "touffue" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

tourist#64,840Tournay#64,841tresser#64,844Titouan#64,833

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list