F
\ɛf\
The verdict
“F” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #1,001) as a character. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #1,001
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sixième lettre et quatrième consonne de l’alphabet (majuscule).
Corpus desk
Index FR-f · F · French
F · rank #1,001 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,001
- LEN-SHORT 1 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH européenne
Nearest frequency peer: européenne (-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 « F »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- cul
cul
99,002 corpus weight
- européenne
européenne
99,001 corpus weight
- F
F
99,000 corpus weight
- lettre
lettre
98,999 corpus weight
- lieux
lieux
98,998 corpus weight
- Lyon
Lyon
98,997 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « F » 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 | F |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Character |
| IPA | \ɛf\ |
| Letters | 1 |
| Frequency rank | #1,001 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « F »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for F is neighbouring look-alikes ("FN", "FC", …), not just typos; it is acharacter pronounced \ɛf\. Frequency #1,001 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Gloss: "Sixième lettre et quatrième consonne de l’alphabet (majuscule).".
Zero misspellings are on record for F in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "FN", "FC", "fa", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is F, spelled F.
Definition
- 1Sixième lettre et quatrième consonne de l’alphabet (majuscule).
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.