touffus

\tu.fy\

/\tu.fy\/ adj

The verdict

“touffus” is uncommon French (frequency #85,332 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#85,332
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords

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

Corpus desk

Index FR-touffus · touffus · French

touffus · rank #85,332 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #85,332
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH tourer

Nearest frequency peer: tourer (+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 « touffus »

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 « touffus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for touffus
PropertyValue
Headwordtouffus
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\tu.fy\
Letters7
Frequency rank#85,332
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « touffus » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).touffustombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « tourer » (#85,333), « torque » (#85,330), « topinambour » (#85,329). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « touffus » est au #85,332. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

touffus is uncommon French at frequency #85,332 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \tu.fy\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de touffu.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for touffus in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is touffus, spelled T-O-U-F-F-U-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Masculin pluriel de touffu.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Elle fermente, mousse, écume entre les rochers touffus d’herbe et porte par vent, par offrande, par éclats de cristaux de glace, le goût du dieu délicieux dont le feu désassoiffe l’âme.

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

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

Same letter count

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

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list