touffus
\tu.fy\
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
- tolérera
tolérera
14,674 corpus weight
- tombstone
tombstone
14,673 corpus weight
- topinambour
topinambour
14,672 corpus weight
- torque
torque
14,671 corpus weight
- touffus
touffus
14,669 corpus weight
- tourer
tourer
14,668 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « touffus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | touffus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tu.fy\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #85,332 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « touffus » en français
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
- 1Masculin pluriel de touffu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how touffus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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