AFRA
"afra" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“AFRA” is uncommon English (frequency #91,205 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,205
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Initialism of American Federation of Radio Artists.
Corpus desk
Index EN-afra · AFRA · English
AFRA · rank #91,205 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,205
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH acupressure
Nearest frequency peer: acupressure (-2 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “AFRA”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Abruzzi
Abruzzi
8,803 corpus weight
- Ackman
Ackman
8,801 corpus weight
- ACMA
ACMA
8,800 corpus weight
- acupressure
acupressure
8,798 corpus weight
- AFRA
AFRA
8,796 corpus weight
- agreeablene…
agreeableness
8,794 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “AFRA” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | AFRA |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #91,205 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “AFRA” in English
Rare enough to double-check
AFRA is uncommon English at frequency #91,205 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Initialism of American Federation of Radio Artists.".
No misspelling variants are generated for AFRA in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is AFRA, spelled A-F-R-A.
Definition
- 1Initialism of American Federation of Radio Artists.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how AFRA appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
An upcoming problem to be thrashed out at a meeting of diskery reps and execs of the American Federation of Radio Artists (AFRA), is the degree of AFRA's jurisdictional claim over singers on records. AFRA has claimed the jurisdiction generally, and for some months has been having exploratory talks with diskeries.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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