Which to use
“touffe” and “touffes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #28,377
- “touffe” frequency rank
- #43,702
- “touffes” frequency rank
- 72079
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | touffe | touffes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Ensemble d’herbes, de fleurs, de cheveux, de poils, etc., naturellement rapprochés. | Pluriel de touffe. |
Same sound, different letters: touffe vs touffes
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. touffe runs 6 letters (CVVCCV) against touffes's 7 (CVVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - touffe / touffes
This is the hard kind. touffe and touffes are pronounced identically (\tuf\) and both work as anoun. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “touffe” sits inside “touffes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 72079, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
touffe is recorded at frequency rank #28,377, classified as anoun, pronounced \tuf\. touffes is at rank #43,702, tagged as anoun, pronounced \tuf\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 72079, this pair ranks #45,285 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of touffe vs touffes
Shared letters: efotu. Private to "touffe": -. Private to "touffes": s.
"touffe" · 6 letters · shape CVVCCV · "touffes" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "touffe" and "touffes" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "touffe" vs "touffes" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
"touffe" and "touffes" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "touffe" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "touffes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #45,285 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "touffe" and "touffes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "touffes vs tounes". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #45,285 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.