FFR
The verdict
“FFR” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #43,435) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #43,435
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fédération française de rugby.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ffr · FFR · French
FFR · rank #43,435 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,435
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH ferro
Nearest frequency peer: ferro (-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 « FFR »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- fenouil
fenouil
56,569 corpus weight
- ferrier
ferrier
56,568 corpus weight
- ferro
ferro
56,567 corpus weight
- FFR
FFR
56,566 corpus weight
- fichage
fichage
56,565 corpus weight
- Filip
Filip
56,564 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « FFR » 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 | FFR |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #43,435 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « FFR »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for FFR is neighbouring look-alikes ("FN", "fo", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun. Frequency #43,435 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Gloss: "Fédération française de rugby.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for FFR, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "FN", "fo", "fm", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is FFR, spelled F-F-R.
Definition
- 1Fédération française de rugby.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how FFR appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Condamné, mardi, à deux ans de prison avec sursis, notamment pour corruption, le président de la Fédération française de rugby (FFR), Bernard Laporte, se retrouve isolé.
Une cyberattaque au ransomware du groupe de pirates Play a touché la Fédération française de rugby (FFR), dans la nuit de mercredi à jeudi.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).