MTF
"mtf" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“MTF” is uncommon English (frequency #56,301 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,301
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A male-to-female person.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mtf · MTF · English
MTF · rank #56,301 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,301
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH multibillion
Nearest frequency peer: multibillion (+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 “MTF”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- mortifying
mortifying
43,705 corpus weight
- motorcycling
motorcycling
43,702 corpus weight
- MTF
MTF
43,700 corpus weight
- multibillion
multibillion
43,699 corpus weight
- multicellul…
multicellular
43,698 corpus weight
- mutilate
mutilate
43,696 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “MTF” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | MTF |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #56,301 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “MTF” in English
Rare enough to double-check
MTF is uncommon English at frequency #56,301 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for MTF, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is MTF, spelled M-T-F.
Definition
- 1A male-to-female person.
- 2Initialism of multilateral trading facility.
- 3Initialism of magnetized target fusion.
- 4Initialism of mean or median time to failure
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how MTF appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hormone-related cancer in transgender persons is very rare (there are case reports of breast cancer in MTFs).
A trans person might be a butch or a camp, a transgender or a transsexual, an MTF or FTM or a cross-dresser; […]
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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