FTP
\ɛf.te.pe\
The verdict
“FTP” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #31,041) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #31,041
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Résistant républicain français ; partisan d’une lutte de libération nationale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ftp · FTP · French
FTP · rank #31,041 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,041
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH frustrée
Nearest frequency peer: frustrée (-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 « FTP »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- frileux
frileux
68,963 corpus weight
- fructifier
fructifier
68,962 corpus weight
- frustrée
frustrée
68,961 corpus weight
- FTP
FTP
68,960 corpus weight
- fusillades
fusillades
68,959 corpus weight
- fusillés
fusillés
68,958 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « FTP » 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 | FTP |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛf.te.pe\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #31,041 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « FTP »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for FTP is neighbouring look-alikes ("fun", "fût", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ɛf.te.pe\. Frequency #31,041 among 3,276 “F” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for FTP in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fun", "fût", "fui", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is FTP, spelled F-T-P.
Definition
- 1Résistant républicain français ; partisan d’une lutte de libération nationale.
- 2Protocole de communication client-serveur développé pour échanger des fichiers sur les réseaux TCP/IP.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how FTP appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans un wagon, la nuit, j’ai entendu un FTP de je ne sais quelle compagnie qui chantait Zimmerwald. Nous avons aussitôt copié la chanson. Bien entendu, ce FTP était trotskyste.
Le 22 septembre 1943, le groupe d'action immédiate des FTP quitte la ferme d'Alfred Rondeau au hameau de Hollard, à La Chapelle-sur-Oreuse, pour gagner Sens et y saboter l’usine de filets de camouflage de la Mousse.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).