RFC
\ɛ.ʁɛf.se\
The verdict
“RFC” is uncommon French (frequency #69,388 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,388
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Document officiel décrivant les aspects techniques d’Internet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rfc · RFC · French
RFC · rank #69,388 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,388
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rhums
Nearest frequency peer: rhums (+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 « RFC »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- retournaient
retournaient
30,617 corpus weight
- retranchée
retranchée
30,616 corpus weight
- retransmet
retransmet
30,615 corpus weight
- RFC
RFC
30,613 corpus weight
- rhums
rhums
30,612 corpus weight
- risa
risa
30,611 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « RFC » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | RFC |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ.ʁɛf.se\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #69,388 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « RFC » en français
Rare enough to double-check
RFC is uncommon French at frequency #69,388 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ.ʁɛf.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Document officiel décrivant les aspects techniques d’Internet.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for RFC, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is RFC, spelled R-F-C.
Definition
- 1Document officiel décrivant les aspects techniques d’Internet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how RFC appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
une fois publié, un RFC n'est jamais modifié, même d'une virgule
Une RFC, au cours de sa durée de vie, tombe dans l'un des six niveaux de maturité […]
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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