VF
\ve.ɛf\
The verdict
“VF” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,509) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,509
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Doublé dans la langue française.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vf · VF · French
VF · rank #7,509 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,509
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH travailleur
Nearest frequency peer: travailleur (-2 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 « VF »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- tournois
tournois
92,496 corpus weight
- transferts
transferts
92,495 corpus weight
- travailleur
travailleur
92,494 corpus weight
- VF
VF
92,492 corpus weight
- échantillons
échantillons
92,490 corpus weight
- œuf
œuf
92,489 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « VF » 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 | VF |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ve.ɛf\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #7,509 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « VF »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for VF is neighbouring look-alikes ("vu", "vi", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ve.ɛf\. Frequency #7,509 among 2,061 “V” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for VF in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "vu", "vi", "vs", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is VF, spelled V-F.
Definition
- 1Doublé dans la langue française.
- 2Vidéofréquence.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how VF appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Rapidement, au fur et à mesure des ajouts à ma liste, je repère dans les recommandations bon nombre de séries des années 1990 que je n’avais regardées qu’en VF sur M6 étant gamin : « X files », « Buffy », « Ally Mc Beal », « Sliders ».
D’habitude si soucieuse du respect des cultures et de leurs langues respectives, Arte annonce-t-elle sa rentrée dans le rang en nous infligeant le supplice de la VF en prime-time ?
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.