F

See also: Ғ and Appendix:Variations of "f"

Translingual


F U+0046, F
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER F
← E
[U+0045] 		Basic Latin G →
[U+0047]
Ｆ U+FF26, Ｆ
FULLWIDTH LATIN CAPITAL LETTER F
← Ｅ
[U+FF25] 		Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms Ｇ →
[U+FF27]

Letter

F (lower case f)

  1. The sixth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

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Symbol

F

  1. (chemistry) Symbol for fluorine.
  2. (metrology) Symbol for farad.
  3. (computing) Hexadecimal symbol for 15.
  4. (biochemistry) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for phenylalanine
  5. (physics) force
  6. (physics) farad

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Other representations of F:

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛf/
Audio (UK)(file)

Letter

F (upper case, lower case f, plural Fs or F's)

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

F (upper case, lower case f)

  1. The ordinal number sixth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called ef and written in the Latin script.

Etymology 2

Abbreviation

F

  1. A euphemism for fuck.
  2. A musical note.
  3. false
  4. father
  5. female
  6. forever
  7. Friday
  8. function (for the function keys on a computer keyboard)
    Press F1 for help.
  9. (stock ticker symbol) Ford Motor Company
  10. (US, meteorology) Followed by a number from 0 to 5: a rating on the Fujita scale used to indicate the intensity of a tornado.

Coordinate terms

  • (gender): M, X

Noun

F (plural Fs)

  1. A failing grade in a class or course. The next best grade is either a D or an E. Some institutions issue Es instead of Fs.
  2. (in the UK) an academic grade lower than E but higher than G.
  3. American Library Association Abbreviation [please replace this header] for folio-sized books, over 30 cm in height.

Afar

Letter

F

  1. The thirteenth letter in the Afar alphabet.

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American Sign Language

Letter

(transliteration needed) (Stokoe F)

  1. The letter F

Azerbaijani

Letter

F upper case (lower case f)

  1. The eighth letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Dutch

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /ɛf/
  • Audio(file)

Letter

F (capital, lowercase f)

  1. The sixth letter of the Dutch alphabet.

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /fo/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /f/

Letter

F (upper case, lower case f)

  1. The seventh letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called fo and written in the Latin script.

See also

(Latin-script letters) litero; A a, B b, C c, Ĉ ĉ, D d, E e, F f, G g, Ĝ ĝ, H h, Ĥ ĥ, I i, J j, Ĵ ĵ, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, R r, S s, Ŝ ŝ, T t, U u, Ŭ ŭ, V v, Z z

Finnish

Letter

F (upper case, lower case f)

  1. The sixth letter of the Finnish alphabet, called äf or ef and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

  • Used only in loanwords.

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German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ʔɛf]
  • Audio(file)

Letter

F (upper case, lower case f)

  1. The sixth letter of the German alphabet.

Derived terms

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Ido

Pronunciation

Letter

F (lower case f)

  1. The sixth letter of the Ido alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Italian

Pronunciation

  • (name of letter) IPA(key): /ˈɛffe/
  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /f/

Letter

F m, f (invariable, lower case f)

  1. The sixth letter of the Italian alphabet, called effe and written in the Latin script.

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Latvian

Etymology

Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.

Pronunciation

(file)

Letter

F

F (upper case, lower case f)

  1. The ninth letter of the Latvian alphabet, called ef and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

The letter F/f (like H/h, and O/o representing [o], [oː] instead of [uə̯]) is found only in words of foreign origin (borrowings).

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Malay

Pronunciation

  • (Name of letter) IPA(key): [ɛf]
  • (Phoneme) IPA(key): [f]

Letter

F

  1. The sixth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Portuguese

Letter

F (upper case, lower case f)

  1. The sixth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fe/, /ef/

Letter

F (upper case, lower case f)

  1. The eighth letter of the Romanian alphabet representing the phoneme /f/. Preceded by E and followed by G.

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Skolt Sami

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /f/

Letter

F (lower case f)

  1. The eleventh letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Slovene

Letter

F (capital, lowercase f)

  1. The 7th letter of the Slovene alphabet. Preceded by E and followed by G.

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Somali

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /f/
  • (letter name): IPA(key): /fæ/

Letter

F upper case (lower case f)

  1. The fourteenth letter of the Somali alphabet, called fa and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

  1. The fourteenth letter of the Somali alphabet, which follows Arabic abjad order. It is preceded by G and followed by Q.

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Spanish

Letter

F (upper case, lower case f)

  1. The sixth letter of the Spanish alphabet.

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Turkish

Letter

F (upper case, lower case f)

  1. The seventh letter of the Turkish alphabet, called fe and written in the Latin script.

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Zulu

Letter

F (upper case, lower case f)

  1. The sixth letter of the Zulu alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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