Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

fha

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.97 in modern English

Syllables: fha
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

3

Letters

1

Syllables

3

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Initialism of Federal Housing Administration.

American usage

Example Sentences

"White residents used Federal Housing Administration-insured loans to buy their way out of the projects and to move to shiny new middle-class subdivisions. […] The F.H.A.’s explicitly racist underwriting standards, which rated black and integrated neighborhoods as uninsurable, made federally insured home loans largely unavailable to black home seekers."

Usage

American usage

Synonyms

federal housing administration

Questions

What does fha mean?: Initialism of Federal Housing Administration.

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