truffe
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#26,212
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
truffe is aFrenchnoun. It means: Forme particulière de champignons de la famille des ascomycètes du genre des tubéracées; champignons souterrains, charnus, compacts, recherchés pour leur arôme et pour leur saveur dont l’espèce la ... Pronounced \tʁyf\. Often confused with truie and truffes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | truffe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁyf\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #26,212 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for truffe is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tʁyf\. Corpus data places it at rank #26,212 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for truffe, with forms such as "rtuffe", "trfufe", and "trruffe". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "truie", "truffes", "true", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is truffe, spelled T-R-U-F-F-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Forme particulière de champignons de la famille des ascomycètes du genre des tubéracées; champignons souterrains, charnus, compacts, recherchés pour leur arôme et pour leur saveur dont l’espèce la plus intéressante et la plus connue est la truffe noire ou truffe du Périgord.
- 2Friandise, pâtisserie en forme de truffe à base de chocolat.
- 3Personne naïve ou stupide.
- 4ou Pomme de terre.
- 5Se dit du nez quand il est gros et épaté.
- 6Tromperie, fourberie.
- 7Rhinarium, surface sans poil et parfois humide, qui entoure les narines d’un grand nombre de mammifères, dont le chien.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rtuffe,trfufe,trruffe,trufe,trufef,ttruffe,turffe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for truffe
Misspelling Variants of "truffe"
Frequency rank: #26,212 in French
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