FFI
\ɛ.fɛ.fi\
The verdict
“FFI” is uncommon French (frequency #59,287 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,287
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Médecin étranger faisant fonction d’interne dans un hôpital.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ffi · FFI · French
FFI · rank #59,287 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,287
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH ferrata
Nearest frequency peer: ferrata (-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 « FFI »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- faussetés
faussetés
40,717 corpus weight
- fauteur
fauteur
40,716 corpus weight
- ferrata
ferrata
40,715 corpus weight
- FFI
FFI
40,714 corpus weight
- fiant
fiant
40,713 corpus weight
- Fiennes
Fiennes
40,712 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « FFI » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | FFI |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ.fɛ.fi\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #59,287 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « FFI » en français
Rare enough to double-check
FFI is uncommon French at frequency #59,287 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ.fɛ.fi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Médecin étranger faisant fonction d’interne dans un hôpital.".
FFI doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is FFI, spelled F-F-I.
Definition
- 1Médecin étranger faisant fonction d’interne dans un hôpital.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how FFI appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce sont deux médecins qui étaient FFI, « faisant fonction d’interne », qui étaient un peu plus âgés que moi, ils devaient avoir une petite trentaine d’années, quand j’en avais moi 22 ou 23.
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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