EDF
\ø.de.ɛf\
The verdict
“EDF” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #5,554) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #5,554
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Premier producteur et fournisseur d’électricité en France et un des premiers groupes mondiaux producteurs dans le monde.
Corpus desk
Index FR-edf · EDF · French
EDF · rank #5,554 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,554
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH détermination
Nearest frequency peer: détermination (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « EDF »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- délais
délais
94,450 corpus weight
- détention
détention
94,449 corpus weight
- déterminati…
détermination
94,448 corpus weight
- EDF
EDF
94,447 corpus weight
- engagements
engagements
94,445 corpus weight
- enjeu
enjeu
94,444 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « EDF » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | EDF |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ø.de.ɛf\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #5,554 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « EDF »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for EDF is neighbouring look-alikes ("et", "en", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced \ø.de.ɛf\. Frequency #5,554 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Gloss: "Premier producteur et fournisseur d’électricité en France et un des premiers groupes mondiaux producteurs dans le monde.".
EDF has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "et", "en", "Eu", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is EDF, spelled E-D-F.
Definition
- 1Premier producteur et fournisseur d’électricité en France et un des premiers groupes mondiaux producteurs dans le monde.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how EDF appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Alors que se profile la loi sur la transition énergétique, Mediapart a établi le palmarès des plus gros pollueurs climatiques. Surprise : EDF, pourtant producteur à 80 % d’électricité d’origine nucléaire, y occupe la deuxième place.
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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