WMF
"wmf" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“WMF” is uncommon English (frequency #86,955 among 1,759 “W” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,955
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Initialism of Windows Media Format.
Corpus desk
Index EN-wmf · WMF · English
WMF · rank #86,955 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,955
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH wog
Nearest frequency peer: wog (+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 “WMF”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- widebody
widebody
13,050 corpus weight
- Wilmette
Wilmette
13,049 corpus weight
- Wishaw
Wishaw
13,048 corpus weight
- WMF
WMF
13,046 corpus weight
- wog
wog
13,045 corpus weight
- yelps
yelps
13,036 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “WMF” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | WMF |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #86,955 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “WMF” in English
Rare enough to double-check
WMF is uncommon English at frequency #86,955 among 1,759 “W” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
WMF has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 WMF, spelled W-M-F.
Definition
- 1Initialism of Windows Media Format.
- 2Initialism of Wikimedia Foundation.
- 3Initialism of World Monuments Fund.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how WMF appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
“WMF has operated in the past without staffing and with very minimal staffing, so clearly it’s _possible_^([sic]) to host a high traffic website on an absolute shoestring,” acknowledged the Foundation’s then VP of engineering, Erik Möller, in 2013.
After resigning from the WMF as CEO, Katherine Maher became CEO of NPR; it was a sideways move or even a step down.
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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