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VFD

noun

VFD is a noun meaning “Initialism of vacuum fluorescent display” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-F-D, and it appears about once in every 10 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of VFD is VFDs.

What does VFD mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Initialism of vacuum fluorescent display.

  2. 2

    Initialism of variable-frequency drive.

  3. 3

    USInitialism of volunteer fire department.

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

Forms of VFD

  • VFDs plural

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

How common is VFD?

VFD appears about once in every 10 million words in written English, the 93,703rd 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).

VFD in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense US: Volunteer Fire Department:

LanguageWords
GermanFF

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.