LFB
The verdict
“LFB” is uncommon French (frequency #78,579 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,579
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ligue féminine de basket : commission de la Fédération française de basket-ball chargée de promouvoir et d’organiser le basket-ball féminin de haut niveau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lfb · LFB · French
LFB · rank #78,579 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,579
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Libya
Nearest frequency peer: Libya (+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 « LFB »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Lesieur
Lesieur
21,425 corpus weight
- levaient
levaient
21,424 corpus weight
- LFB
LFB
21,422 corpus weight
- Libya
Libya
21,421 corpus weight
- Limassol
Limassol
21,419 corpus weight
- Lisp
Lisp
21,418 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « LFB » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | LFB |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #78,579 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « LFB » en français
Rare enough to double-check
LFB is uncommon French at frequency #78,579 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ligue féminine de basket : commission de la Fédération française de basket-ball chargée de promouvoir et d’organiser le basket-ball féminin de haut niveau.".
No misspelling variants are generated for LFB in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 LFB, spelled L-F-B.
Definition
- 1Ligue féminine de basket : commission de la Fédération française de basket-ball chargée de promouvoir et d’organiser le basket-ball féminin de haut niveau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how LFB appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La LFB a dévoilé jeudi le calendrier de la saison, qui démarrera par le « match des champions », le vendredi 21 octobre, et une rencontre opposant Basket Landes à Bourges.
Une semaine après le Match des Champions entre l’ASVEL féminin et Basket Landes à la Halle Carpentier (Paris, 13e), la saison régulière de la LFB débutera avec un premier choc entre Bourges et Basket Landes.
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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