NF
The verdict
“NF” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #25,413) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #25,413
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nouveau franc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nf · NF · French
NF · rank #25,413 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,413
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nigérian
Nearest frequency peer: nigérian (+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 « NF »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- mélangent
mélangent
74,591 corpus weight
- mûres
mûres
74,590 corpus weight
- NF
NF
74,588 corpus weight
- nigérian
nigérian
74,587 corpus weight
- noisy
noisy
74,586 corpus weight
- norvégiens
norvégiens
74,585 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « NF » 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 | NF |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #25,413 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « NF »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for NF is neighbouring look-alikes ("ni", "no", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #25,413 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Gloss: "Nouveau franc.".
Zero misspellings are on record for NF in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ni", "no", "nu", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented 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 NF, spelled N-F.
Definition
- 1Nouveau franc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how NF appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous sommes contraints de majorer de 1 NF pour les frais, les quittances en recouvrement.
Les volumes de la Iʳᵉ série (années 1936, 1937, 1938 et 1939) sont épuisés ; on peut toutefois se procurer certains numéros séparés au prix de 2 NF le fascicule simple et 4 NF le fascicule double.
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.