sf
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.88 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
2
Letters
1
Syllables
2
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Initialism of science fiction or speculative fiction, often used to avoid having to choose between the two.
Countable; Uncountable
name
Example Sentences
- "But some discussion of the complex relationship between “allohistory” and sf is appropriate here, as the genres overlap in certain ways. Classical allohistory— such as Trevelyan's "What if Napoleon had won the Battle of Waterloo?" and Churchill's "If Lee had not won the Battle of Gettysburg" —is a rigorously consistent thought-experiment in historical causality."
Etymology
Usage
- Countable
- Uncountable
- British usage
- Dated