AFC
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The verdict
“AFC” is uncommon German (frequency #52,631 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as an abbreviation. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,631
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abkürzung für: Asian Football Confederation (Der asiatische Fußballverband)
Corpus desk
Index DE-afc · AFC · German
AFC · rank #52,631 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,631
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH advance
Nearest frequency peer: advance (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „AFC“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Absolutismus
Absolutismus
47,373 corpus weight
- Abstellgleis
Abstellgleis
47,372 corpus weight
- advance
advance
47,371 corpus weight
- AFC
AFC
47,370 corpus weight
- Agora
Agora
47,369 corpus weight
- ahnten
ahnten
47,368 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „AFC“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | AFC |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #52,631 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „AFC“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
AFC is uncommon German at frequency #52,631 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as anabbreviation, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Abkürzung für: Asian Football Confederation (Der asiatische Fußballverband)".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for AFC, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is AFC, spelled A-F-C.
Definition
- 1Abkürzung für: Asian Football Confederation (Der asiatische Fußballverband)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how AFC appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die AFC (Asian Football Confederation) wurde im Jahr 1954 gegründet.
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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