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afk

/ˌeɪ ɛf ˈkeɪ/prepositional phrase

afk is spelled A-F-K: 3 letters. It appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 65,114th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a prepositional phrase, afk means “Alternative letter-case form of AFK” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in afk?

Letters3: A-F-K
In writingabout once in every 5 million words; the 65,114th 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 afk?

Afk appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 65,114th 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 afk?

  • /ˌeɪ ɛf ˈkeɪ/

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

What does afk mean?

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

prepositional phrase

  1. 1

    Alternative letter-case form of AFK.

prepositional phrase

as AFK
  1. 1

    Initialism of away from keyboard, i.e. away from one's computer; idle.

    I'm gonna go AFK in a few mins

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

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