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CFL

"CFL" is a common misspelling or typo for: cal, calf, call, calm, cell, cold, colt, cull, cult.


Abbreviations & Acronyms: CFL

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

CFL

EnglishCost and freight landedBusiness, Economics

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: CFL

Specialty definitions using "CFL": Compact Fluorescent Lamp. (references)

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Commercial Usage: CFL

DomainTitle

References

  • The 2000-2005 Outlook for Cfl Lamps, Bulbs, and Tubes in Asia (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Bigger Balls: The CFL and Overcoming the Canadian Inferiority Complex (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: CFL

SubjectTopicQuote

Worker Rights

Taiwan

However, in August the CFL's president attended an ILO regional meeting, the first such participation in an ILO meeting since 1971. The CFL is affiliated with the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: CFL

"CFL" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CFL" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CFL

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

cfl football

150

cfl tsn

13

cfl.state.mn.us incident report report.html

7

cfl scoreboard

6

cbc cfl

6

b c canada.com cfl lion

4

cfl transactions

3

cfl ballast

3

cfl ottawa renegades

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: CFL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "c-f-l"
 

+1 letter: calf, clef, flic, floc.

 

+2 letters: calfs, calif, clefs, cleft, cliff, clift, fecal, filch, flack, fleck, flick, flics, flock, flocs, focal.

 

+3 letters: califs, canful, capful, carful, clefts, cliffs, cliffy, clifts, coffle, cupful, facial, facile, facula, faecal, falces, falcon, faucal, fecial, feckly, fecula, fickle, fickly, filmic, fiscal, flacks, flacon, fleche, flecks, flecky, fleece, fleech, fleecy, flench, fletch, flicks, flinch, flitch, flocci, flocks, flocky, flysch, frolic, fulcra, sclaff.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: CFL


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 46 4C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    ..-.    .-..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01000110 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#70 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0046 004C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

374046

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Abbreviations
8. Acronyms
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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