Rf
The verdict
“Rf” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #29,306) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #29,306
- frequency rank, German
- 2,984
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rutherfordium
Corpus desk
Index DE-rf · Rf · German
Rf · rank #29,306 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,306
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,984
- PHOTO-FINISH revanche
Nearest frequency peer: revanche (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Rf”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- reimt
reimt
70,698 corpus weight
- remember
remember
70,697 corpus weight
- revanche
revanche
70,696 corpus weight
- Rf
Rf
70,695 corpus weight
- Richmond
Richmond
70,693 corpus weight
- rising
rising
70,692 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Rf” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Rf |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #29,306 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “Rf” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Rf is neighbouring look-alikes ("Rn", "Rs", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation. Frequency #29,306 among 2,984 “R” headwords. Gloss: "Rutherfordium".
Rf has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Rn", "Rs", "RV", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Rf, spelled R-F.
Definition
- 1Rutherfordium
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Rf appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
²⁶⁰Rf besitzt eine Halbwertszeit von 20 Millisekunden.
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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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.