Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pdf

/pi di ɛf/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.84 in modern English

Syllables
pdf
IPA
/pi di ɛf/
9
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
3
Syllables
3
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Abbreviation of People's Defence Force (“armed paramilitary anti-military-rule rebel group in Myanmar”).

noun

Initialism of portable document format (“a document in PDF format”).

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Alternative letter-case form of pdf (“probability density function”).

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Initialism of pop directional format.

Countable; Uncountable

verb

To convert (something) to PDF format.

Transitive verb

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How do you pronounce pdf?
The recorded pronunciation is /pi di ɛf/.
What does pdf mean?
Initialism of Parkinson's Disease Foundation, now just Parkinson's Foundation.

How to pronounce pdf

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  2. Read the phonetic spelling — Read the IPA spelling (/pi di ɛf/) so you know which sounds to aim for.
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