AOF
\a.ɔ.ɛf\
The verdict
“AOF” is uncommon French (frequency #67,280 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,280
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Afrique-Occidentale française.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aof · AOF · French
AOF · rank #67,280 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,280
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Antonov
Nearest frequency peer: Antonov (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « AOF »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- antalgique
antalgique
32,724 corpus weight
- anthologies
anthologies
32,723 corpus weight
- Antonov
Antonov
32,722 corpus weight
- AOF
AOF
32,721 corpus weight
- apaisés
apaisés
32,720 corpus weight
- aphrodisiaq…
aphrodisiaques
32,719 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « AOF » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | AOF |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ɔ.ɛf\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #67,280 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « AOF » en français
Rare enough to double-check
AOF is uncommon French at frequency #67,280 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ɔ.ɛf\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Afrique-Occidentale française.".
Zero misspellings are on record for AOF in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is AOF, spelled A-O-F.
Definition
- 1Afrique-Occidentale française.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how AOF appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Leur langue a bénéficié de sa position géographique quand Dakar, ville nouvelle, est devenue en 1902 capitale de l’AOF.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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