MLF
\ɛm.ɛ.lɛf\
The verdict
“MLF” is uncommon French (frequency #76,800 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,800
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mouvement de libération des femmes (mouvement féministe français autonome et non-mixte fondé en 1970).
Corpus desk
Index FR-mlf · MLF · French
MLF · rank #76,800 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,800
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mobilisons
Nearest frequency peer: mobilisons (+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 « MLF »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- microbiolog…
microbiologiste
23,204 corpus weight
- mineiro
mineiro
23,203 corpus weight
- MLF
MLF
23,201 corpus weight
- mobilisons
mobilisons
23,200 corpus weight
- mobs
mobs
23,199 corpus weight
- modifiait
modifiait
23,198 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « MLF » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | MLF |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɛm.ɛ.lɛf\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #76,800 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « MLF » en français
Rare enough to double-check
MLF is uncommon French at frequency #76,800 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ɛm.ɛ.lɛf\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for MLF, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 MLF, spelled M-L-F.
Definition
- 1Mouvement de libération des femmes (mouvement féministe français autonome et non-mixte fondé en 1970).
- 2Mouvement de libération des femmes (mouvement féministe suisse fondé en 1969 et dissout en 1989).
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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