DTF
"dtf" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“DTF” is uncommon English (frequency #78,552 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,552
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Initialism of down to fuck (“willing to engage in casual sex without necessarily seeking that in particular”).
Corpus desk
Index EN-dtf · DTF · English
DTF · rank #78,552 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,552
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH drizzly
Nearest frequency peer: drizzly (-1 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 “DTF”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- DPO
DPO
21,453 corpus weight
- drizzly
drizzly
21,450 corpus weight
- DTF
DTF
21,449 corpus weight
- Duchesne
Duchesne
21,448 corpus weight
- ducting
ducting
21,447 corpus weight
- dyadic
dyadic
21,443 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “DTF” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | DTF |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #78,552 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “DTF” in English
Rare enough to double-check
DTF is uncommon English at frequency #78,552 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Initialism of down to fuck (“willing to engage in casual sex without necessarily seeking that in particular”).".
DTF doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is DTF, spelled D-T-F.
Definition
- 1Initialism of down to fuck (“willing to engage in casual sex without necessarily seeking that in particular”).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how DTF appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I really want a LTR, but I'm DTF if you're hot and dumb.
I asked if he was dtf, and he said to be over in 5 minutes.
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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