ef
/ˈɛf/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.28 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
2
Letters
1
Syllables
2
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The name of the Latin script letter F/f.
conj
Pronunciation spelling of if, representing dialectal English.
noun
noun
name
Initialism of Entity Framework, an open-source ORM framework.
name
Followed by a number from 0 to 5: initialism of Enhanced Fujita, a rating on the Enhanced Fujita scale used to indicate the intensity of a tornado; it has superseded the Fujita scale.
Canadian usage; American usage
name
adj
Initialism of extremely fine or extra fine; also XF.
Example Sentences
- "I have drunk en-ee-cee-tee-ay-ar from the ef-ell-oh-doubleyou-ee-ar-ess in his gee-ay-ar-dee-ee-en many a time."
- "Captain Tom would have hired him to hunt down his own child, ef Rosebud hadn’t interfered."
- "Under certain conditions, the localized EF near an energized transmission line conductor can produce small electric discharges, ionizing nearby air. […] Modern “bipolar” cardiac devices are much less susceptible to interactions with EFs. Manufacturers of pacemakers and other IMDs have indicated that EFs below 6 kV/m are unlikely to cause interactions affecting the operation of most of their devices."