NRF
\ɛn‿ɛʁ‿ɛf\
The verdict
“NRF” is uncommon French (frequency #56,786 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,786
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sigle de La Nouvelle Revue Française..
Corpus desk
Index FR-nrf · NRF · French
NRF · rank #56,786 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,786
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH NTIC
Nearest frequency peer: NTIC (+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 « NRF »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- noon
noon
43,218 corpus weight
- noor
noor
43,217 corpus weight
- NRF
NRF
43,215 corpus weight
- NTIC
NTIC
43,214 corpus weight
- Nubie
Nubie
43,213 corpus weight
- Nîmois
Nîmois
43,212 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « NRF » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | NRF |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛn‿ɛʁ‿ɛf\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #56,786 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « NRF » en français
Rare enough to double-check
NRF is uncommon French at frequency #56,786 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛn‿ɛʁ‿ɛf\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sigle de La Nouvelle Revue Française..".
No misspelling variants are generated for NRF in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is NRF, spelled N-R-F.
Definition
- 1Sigle de La Nouvelle Revue Française..
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how NRF appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On croirait presque lire des pages tirées d'un roman de la collection « Blanche » de La NRF. Et cela est un compliment.
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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