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IIFE

/ˈɪfi/noun

IIFE is spelled I-I-F-E: 4 letters. It appears about once in every 33 million words in written English, the 176,009th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, IIFE means “Initialism of immediately-invoked function expression” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of IIFE is IIFEs.

How many letters and syllables are in IIFE?

Letters4: I-I-F-E
In writingabout once in every 33 million words; the 176,009th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Sounds like

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is IIFE?

IIFE appears about once in every 33 million words in written English, the 176,009th most frequent word form in the list.

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

How do you pronounce IIFE?

  • /ˈɪfi/

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

Words people confuse with IIFE

Sounds like: iffy (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Forms of IIFE

  • IIFEs plural

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

What does IIFE mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Initialism of immediately-invoked function expression.

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

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