FTM
"ftm" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“FTM” is uncommon English (frequency #56,760 among 18,613 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,760
- frequency rank, English
- 18,613
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A female-to-male person.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | FTM |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #56,760 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “FTM” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
FTM is uncommon English at frequency #56,760 among 18,613 “F” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
FTM doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is FTM, spelled F-T-M.
Definition
- 1A female-to-male person.
- 2Abbreviation of first-time mom/mother/mum.
- 3Abbreviation of full-time mom/mother/mum.
- 4Initialism of freedom to marry (marriage equality).
This word in other languages
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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Using “FTM”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is F-T-M - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.