SF
The verdict
“SF” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #15,503) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #15,503
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - De science-fiction, relatif à la science-fiction.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sf · SF · French
SF · rank #15,503 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,503
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH secrétaires
Nearest frequency peer: secrétaires (-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 « SF »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- saucisse
saucisse
84,501 corpus weight
- saurez
saurez
84,500 corpus weight
- secrétaires
secrétaires
84,499 corpus weight
- SF
SF
84,498 corpus weight
- Sidney
Sidney
84,497 corpus weight
- signalés
signalés
84,496 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « SF » 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 | SF |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #15,503 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « SF »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for SF is neighbouring look-alikes ("si", "st", …), not just typos; it is anadjective. Frequency #15,503 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Gloss: "De science-fiction, relatif à la science-fiction.".
SF has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "si", "st", "su", 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 its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is SF, spelled S-F.
Definition
- 1De science-fiction, relatif à la science-fiction.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how SF appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« C’est l’une des caractéristiques essentielles de l’écriture d’Elia Barceló : à travers l’intrigue et le cadre SF, elle poursuit une réflexion sur l’humain. »
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.