ASFC

noun

The verdict

“ASFC” is uncommon French (frequency #93,496 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#93,496
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Agence des services frontaliers du Canada.

Corpus desk

Index FR-asfc · ASFC · French

ASFC · rank #93,496 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #93,496
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH ascite

Nearest frequency peer: ascite (-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 « ASFC »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ASFC » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for ASFC
PropertyValue
HeadwordASFC
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters4
Frequency rank#93,496
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « ASFC » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).ASFCtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « ascite » (#93,495), « asociaux » (#93,497), « asad » (#93,494). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « ASFC » est au #93,496. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

ASFC is uncommon French at frequency #93,496 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Agence des services frontaliers du Canada.".

No misspelling variants are generated for ASFC in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is ASFC, spelled A-S-F-C.

Definition

  1. 1
    Agence des services frontaliers du Canada.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how ASFC appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Jointe par courriel par Radio-Canada, l’ASFC a précisé que la saisie remontait au 12 février dernier. Un Torontois de 36 ans en provenance de Francfort, en Allemagne, a été arrêté et accusé par rapport à cette affaire, dit-elle. Selon l’ASFC, le voyageur et la drogue saisie ont été confiés à la GRC, qui est responsable de l’enquête.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ASFC"?
"ASFC" is spelled A-S-F-C.
What does "ASFC" mean?
As a noun, "ASFC" means: Agence des services frontaliers du Canada.
What language does "ASFC" come from?
"ASFC" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "ASFC", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list