MGF
\ɛm.ʒe.ɛf\
The verdict
“MGF” is uncommon French (frequency #85,936 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,936
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mutilation génitale féminine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mgf · MGF · French
MGF · rank #85,936 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,936
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH miauler
Nearest frequency peer: miauler (+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 « MGF »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mesquineries
mesquineries
14,069 corpus weight
- messianiques
messianiques
14,068 corpus weight
- meurtries
meurtries
14,067 corpus weight
- MGF
MGF
14,065 corpus weight
- miauler
miauler
14,064 corpus weight
- misérabilis…
misérabilisme
14,061 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « MGF » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | MGF |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛm.ʒe.ɛf\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #85,936 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « MGF » en français
Rare enough to double-check
MGF is uncommon French at frequency #85,936 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛm.ʒe.ɛf\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mutilation génitale féminine.".
No misspelling variants are generated for MGF in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is MGF, spelled M-G-F.
Definition
- 1Mutilation génitale féminine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how MGF appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les MGF peuvent concerner l’ablation du capuchon du clitoris, l’ablation totale du clitoris, l’excision des petites lèvres de la vulve et l’ablation des tissus adjacents du clitoris ou la suture de l’orifice vaginal.
Dans plusieurs contextes, les données semblent indiquer que les soignantes et les soignants participent davantage aux MGF, car on pense que ces actes sont plus sûrs s’ils sont médicalisés. L’OMS exhorte les soignantes et les soignants à ne pas pratiquer de MGF et elle a élaboré une stratégie mondiale et des documents spécifiques pour soutenir le secteur d…
This word in other languages
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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