mfr
"mfr" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mfr” is uncommon English (frequency #63,080 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,080
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abbreviation of manufacturer.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mfr · mfr · English
mfr · rank #63,080 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,080
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Midrash
Nearest frequency peer: Midrash (+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 “mfr”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Matsuda
Matsuda
36,927 corpus weight
- McCandless
McCandless
36,925 corpus weight
- mfr
mfr
36,921 corpus weight
- Midrash
Midrash
36,919 corpus weight
- monad
monad
36,915 corpus weight
- Moneyball
Moneyball
36,914 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “mfr” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mfr |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #63,080 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “mfr” in English
Rare enough to double-check
mfr is uncommon English at frequency #63,080 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Abbreviation of manufacturer.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for mfr in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is mfr, spelled M-F-R.
Definition
- 1Abbreviation of manufacturer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mfr appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Angus, G., & Co., Ltd., lthr. mfrs., 93, Bridge-st., Deansgate.
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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