FTC
"ftc" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“FTC” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #21,524) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #21,524
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Initialism of Federal Trade Commission.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ftc · FTC · English
FTC · rank #21,524 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,524
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH gated
Nearest frequency peer: gated (+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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “FTC”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- fragmentati…
fragmentation
78,480 corpus weight
- FTC
FTC
78,477 corpus weight
- gated
gated
78,476 corpus weight
- girly
girly
78,475 corpus weight
- glam
glam
78,474 corpus weight
- glorified
glorified
78,473 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “FTC” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | FTC |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #21,524 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “FTC”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for FTC is neighbouring look-alikes ("fu", "FW", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun. Frequency #21,524 among 2,507 “F” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
FTC doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fu", "FW", "fy", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is FTC, spelled F-T-C.
Definition
- 1Initialism of Federal Trade Commission.
- 2Initialism of Federal Transfer Center.
- 3Initialism of fixed-term contract.
- 4Initialism of FIRST Tech Challenge.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how FTC appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De Beers, the world’s largest diamond producer, announced plans in 2017 to operate a carbon-neutral mine and pointed out that the FTC has warned lab-grown diamond sellers over the veracity of their environmental claims.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).