FFBB
The verdict
“FFBB” is uncommon French (frequency #80,206 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,206
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fédération française de basket-ball.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ffbb · FFBB · French
FFBB · rank #80,206 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,206
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH feter
Nearest frequency peer: feter (-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 « FFBB »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fendues
fendues
19,799 corpus weight
- ferrera
ferrera
19,797 corpus weight
- feter
feter
19,796 corpus weight
- FFBB
FFBB
19,795 corpus weight
- fico
fico
19,794 corpus weight
- figurerait
figurerait
19,793 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « FFBB » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | FFBB |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #80,206 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « FFBB » en français
Rare enough to double-check
FFBB is uncommon French at frequency #80,206 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fédération française de basket-ball.".
No misspelling variants are generated for FFBB in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 FFBB, spelled F-F-B-B.
Definition
- 1Fédération française de basket-ball.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how FFBB appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au siège de la Fédération française de basket (FFBB), Jean-Pierre Siutat, le président, Boris Diaw, le manageur de l’équipe de France, et Vincent Collet, le sélectionneur, ont évoqué, mardi, les causes qui ont amené au fiasco du dernier Mondial.
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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