ff.
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The verdict
“ff.” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as an abbreviation. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 3
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (und) die folgenden (Dokumentseiten, Paragraphen und Ähnliches)
Corpus desk
Index DE-ff · ff. · German
ff. · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ff. |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „ff.“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
ff. is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anabbreviation, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(und) die folgenden (Dokumentseiten, Paragraphen und Ähnliches)".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ff., typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is ff., spelled F-F-..
Definition
- 1(und) die folgenden (Dokumentseiten, Paragraphen und Ähnliches)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ff. appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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This word in other languages
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