fk
\ˈfʌk\
The verdict
“fk” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #45,615) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #45,615
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de fuck (« zut »).
Corpus desk
Index FR-fk · fk · French
fk · rank #45,615 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,615
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fervente
Nearest frequency peer: fervente (-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 « fk »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Fellini
Fellini
54,389 corpus weight
- Ferrières
Ferrières
54,388 corpus weight
- fervente
fervente
54,387 corpus weight
- fk
fk
54,386 corpus weight
- florin
florin
54,385 corpus weight
- fluidifier
fluidifier
54,384 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « fk » 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 | fk |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \ˈfʌk\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #45,615 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « fk »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for fk is neighbouring look-alikes ("FN", "fo", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced \ˈfʌk\. Frequency #45,615 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Gloss: "Variante orthographique de fuck (« zut »).".
fk doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "FN", "fo", "fm", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is fk, spelled F-K.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de fuck (« zut »).
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.