FBF
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
- fanons
fanons
5,206 corpus weight
- fantasmagor…
fantasmagorie
5,205 corpus weight
- Farel
Farel
5,204 corpus weight
- faucilles
faucilles
5,203 corpus weight
- FBF
FBF
5,202 corpus weight
- feeder
feeder
5,201 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « FBF » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | FBF |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #94,799 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « FBF » en français
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
- 1Organisation professionnelle qui représente les banques installées en France,
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how FBF appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La FBF et l’administration fiscale s’opposent de longue date sur le sujet du stratagème appelé CumCum.
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.
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