transfo
\tʁɑ̃s.fo\
The verdict
“transfo” is uncommon French (frequency #56,321 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,321
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Transformateur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-transfo · transfo · French
transfo · rank #56,321 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,321
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Tourville
Nearest frequency peer: Tourville (-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 « transfo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tomahawk
tomahawk
43,684 corpus weight
- totems
totems
43,682 corpus weight
- Tourville
Tourville
43,681 corpus weight
- transfo
transfo
43,680 corpus weight
- transité
transité
43,679 corpus weight
- transpercer
transpercer
43,678 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « transfo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | transfo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁɑ̃s.fo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #56,321 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « transfo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
transfo is uncommon French at frequency #56,321 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʁɑ̃s.fo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Transformateur.".
transfo doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is transfo, spelled T-R-A-N-S-F-O.
Definition
- 1Transformateur.
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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