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characternumeralsymbolnouncommon in dialogue

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The sixth letter of the English alphabet, called ef and written in the Latin script.

character

  1. 1

    The sixth letter of the English alphabet, called ef and written in the Latin script.

Etymology

Old English lower case letter f, from 7th century replacement by Latin lower case f of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᚠ (f, “fe”).

numeral

  1. 1

    The sixth numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called ef and written in the Latin script.

symbol

  1. 1

    The name of the fourth tone of the model scale, or scale of C. F sharp (F♯) is a tone intermediate between F and G.

Etymology

Abbreviations.

noun

  1. 1

    Folio, paper and book size (10"-12.5" x 15"-20")

  2. 2

    Variant of fuckAbbreviation of fuck.

    What the f do you think you're doing?

  3. 3

    Variant of feminineAbbreviation of feminine.

Forms

plural
fs, f's
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).