AFO

noun

AFO is a noun meaning “Initialism of armed forces overseas” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-F-O, and it appears about once in every 9 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of AFO is AFOs.

What does AFO mean?

noun

1
CanadaUSInitialism of armed forces overseas.
2
UKInitialism of authorised firearms officer.
3
USInitialism of assault on a federal officer
4
Initialism of ankle-foot orthosis.

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

Forms of AFO

AFOs plural

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

How common is AFO?

AFO appears about once in every 9 million words in written English, the 89,388th most frequent word form in the list.

AFO0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

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

Where does AFO come from?

Abbreviation.

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