NFL
\ɛn.ɛf.ɛl\
The verdict
“NFL” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #13,849) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #13,849
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Association d’équipes professionnelles de football américain, active aux États-Unis.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nfl · NFL · French
NFL · rank #13,849 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,849
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH newton
Nearest frequency peer: newton (-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 « NFL »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- nazisme
nazisme
86,155 corpus weight
- Neuilly
Neuilly
86,154 corpus weight
- newton
newton
86,153 corpus weight
- NFL
NFL
86,152 corpus weight
- nécessitant
nécessitant
86,151 corpus weight
- obs
obs
86,150 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « NFL » 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 | NFL |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɛn.ɛf.ɛl\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #13,849 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « NFL »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for NFL is neighbouring look-alikes ("ni", "no", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced \ɛn.ɛf.ɛl\. Frequency #13,849 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Gloss: "Association d’équipes professionnelles de football américain, active aux États-Unis.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for NFL in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ni", "no", "nu", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is NFL, spelled N-F-L.
Definition
- 1Association d’équipes professionnelles de football américain, active aux États-Unis.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how NFL appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une petite semaine après son arrêt cardiaque en plein match de NFL, le joueur des Buffalo Bills Damar Hamlin continuait de faire des progrès dans le cadre de son rétablissement.
Les 32 franchises de la NFL sont regroupées en 2 conférence de 4 divisions (Nord, Sud, Est et Ouest) comprenant chacune 4 équipes.
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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