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RFID

noun

RFID is a noun meaning “Initialism of radio-frequency identification” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-F-I-D, and it appears about once in every 1 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does RFID mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Initialism of radio-frequency identification.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is RFID?

RFID appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 34,504th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

RFID in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense radio-frequency identification (initialism):

LanguageWords
GermanRFID
SpanishAuto ID, RFID

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.