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afam

/ɐˈfam/noun

afam is spelled A-F-A-M: 4 letters. It appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 182,517th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, afam means “Alternative form of AFAM” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in afam?

Letters4: A-F-A-M
In writingabout once in every 35 million words; the 182,517th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is afam?

Afam appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 182,517th 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).

How do you pronounce afam?

  • /ɐˈfam/
  • /ˈeɪfæm/

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

What does afam mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative form of AFAM

noun

as AFAM
  1. 1

    slangA foreigner in the Philippines (usually male).

  2. 2

    Any foreigner in the Philippines.

noun

as Afam
  1. 1

    Alternative form of AFAM

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

Where does afam come from?

Possibly an acronym of a foreigner around Manila.

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

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