FBF

name

The verdict

“FBF” is uncommon French (frequency #94,799 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#94,799
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Organisation professionnelle qui représente les banques installées en France,

Corpus desk

Index FR-fbf · FBF · French

FBF · rank #94,799 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #94,799
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-0 0 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH faucilles

Nearest frequency peer: faucilles (-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 « FBF »

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 « FBF » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for FBF
PropertyValue
HeadwordFBF
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters3
Frequency rank#94,799
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « FBF » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).FBFtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « faucilles » (#94,798), « feeder » (#94,800), « Farel » (#94,797). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « FBF » est au #94,799. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

FBF is uncommon French at frequency #94,799 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Organisation professionnelle qui représente les banques installées en France,".

FBF doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

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 French form is FBF, spelled F-B-F.

Definition

  1. 1
    Organisation professionnelle qui représente les banques installées en France,

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. La FBF et l’administration fiscale s’opposent de longue date sur le sujet du stratagème appelé CumCum.
  2. Le président de la Fédération bancaire française (FBF) Philippe Brassac a assuré mercredi qu'il n'y avait « pas de crise bancaire » en Europe contrairement aux Etats-Unis.

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 "FBF"?
"FBF" is spelled F-B-F.
What does "FBF" mean?
As a proper noun, "FBF" means: Organisation professionnelle qui représente les banques installées en France,
What language does "FBF" come from?
"FBF" 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 "FBF", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list