FFSA
The verdict
“FFSA” is uncommon French (frequency #60,790 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,790
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fédération française de sport adapté aux handicaps mentaux ou psychiques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ffsa · FFSA · French
FFSA · rank #60,790 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,790
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH ferments
Nearest frequency peer: ferments (-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 « FFSA »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- favorisa
favorisa
39,215 corpus weight
- ferments
ferments
39,212 corpus weight
- FFSA
FFSA
39,211 corpus weight
- fichée
fichée
39,210 corpus weight
- finals
finals
39,209 corpus weight
- fio
fio
39,208 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « FFSA » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | FFSA |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #60,790 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « FFSA » en français
Rare enough to double-check
FFSA is uncommon French at frequency #60,790 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fédération française de sport adapté aux handicaps mentaux ou psychiques.".
Zero misspellings are on record for FFSA in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is FFSA, spelled F-F-S-A.
Definition
- 1Fédération française de sport adapté aux handicaps mentaux ou psychiques.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how FFSA appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En France, seulement cent mille personnes en situation de handicap sont affiliées soit à la Fédération française de sport adapté (FFSA) (environ deux tiers, ndr), soit à la fédération française de handisport (FFH).
« C’est vraiment très peu quand on sait que c’est le handicap le plus présent dans le monde », souffle Marc Truffaut, président de la Fédération française de sport adapté (FFSA).
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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