Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

vfat

/viː.fæt/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: vfat
IPA: /viː.fæt/

10

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Initialism of virtual file allocation table: the method used by Windows 9x and Windows NT to allow the use of long filenames on FAT16 and FAT32 file systems while still providing 8.3 aliases of these filenames for backwards compatibility with systems not supporting long filenames.

Inflected Forms

VFATs (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

exFAT FAT FAT12 FAT16B FAT16X FAT16 FAT32X FAT32

Questions

How do you pronounce vfat?: The recorded pronunciation is /viː.fæt/.
What does vfat mean?: Initialism of virtual file allocation table: the method used by Windows 9x and Windows NT to allow the use of long filenames on FAT16 and FAT32 file systems while still providing 8.3 aliases of these filenames for backwards compatibility with systems not supporting long filenames.

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