truffe

/\tʁyf\/ noun

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.

Key facts for truffe
PropertyValue
Headwordtruffe
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tʁyf\
Letters6
Frequency rank#26,212
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of truffe in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    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 plus intéressante et la plus connue est la truffe noire ou truffe du Périgord.
  2. 2
    Friandise, pâtisserie en forme de truffe à base de chocolat.
  3. 3
    Personne naïve ou stupide.
  4. 4
    ou Pomme de terre.
  5. 5
    Se dit du nez quand il est gros et épaté.
  6. 6
    Tromperie, fourberie.
  7. 7
    Rhinarium, 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"

rtuffe6trfufe6trruffe7trufe5trufef6ttruffe7turffe6
Misspelling Variants of "truffe"

Frequency rank: #26,212 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "truffe"?
"truffe" is spelled T-R-U-F-F-E. The IPA pronunciation is \tʁyf\.
What does "truffe" mean?
As a noun, "truffe" 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 ...
What words are commonly confused with "truffe"?
"truffe" is commonly confused with "truie", "truffes", "true". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "truffe"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "truffe" is \tʁyf\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "truffe" come from?
"truffe" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.