MFA
\ɛm.ɛf.a\
The verdict
“MFA” is uncommon French (frequency #70,839 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,839
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abréviation de microscopie à force atomique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mfa · MFA · French
MFA · rank #70,839 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,839
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Meyzieu
Nearest frequency peer: Meyzieu (-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 « MFA »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- meublées
meublées
29,165 corpus weight
- Meyzieu
Meyzieu
29,163 corpus weight
- MFA
MFA
29,162 corpus weight
- mimant
mimant
29,159 corpus weight
- minibar
minibar
29,158 corpus weight
- minimas
minimas
29,157 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « MFA » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | MFA |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛm.ɛf.a\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #70,839 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « MFA » en français
Rare enough to double-check
MFA is uncommon French at frequency #70,839 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛm.ɛf.a\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Abréviation de microscopie à force atomique.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for MFA in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is MFA, spelled M-F-A.
Definition
- 1Abréviation de microscopie à force atomique.
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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