AFL

Definition: AFL

AFL

Noun

1. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.

"AFL" is a common misspelling or typo for: aft, ail, all, awl, fall.

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.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
AFL	English	A fundamental language	N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

AFL a TLA for:

American Football League
American Federation of Labor
Arena Football League
Australian Football League

Synonym: AFL

Synonym: American Federation of Labor (n). (additional references)

Synonyms by domain: a fundamental language (computing), Antifibrinolysin (chemistry, chemical industry).

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

Saturday AFL (2002)

AFL Sunday (2002)

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

Domain	Title
Books	State Labor Proceedings: A Bibliography of the Afl, Cio, and Afl-Cio Proceedings, 1885-1974, Held in the Afl-Cio Library (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Members of the AFL delegation to the second World Congress of the ICFTU in Milan shown during one of the early sessions of that Congress.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Human Rights	Liberia	In response to an appeal of the 1999 treason convictions of 13 ethnic Krahn AFL members, the Government demanded in 1999 that their sentences be changed from 10 years' imprisonment to death. (references)
Trade	Kenya	AFL is managed by Kenya Capital Partners. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"AFL" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "AFL" is used about 4 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 Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	4	175,879

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "AFL": AFL-CIO.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "AFL": aflame, aflatoxin, aflatoxins, afloat, aflutter. (additional references)
	Words containing "AFL": deafly, gigaflop, gigaflops, leafless, leaflet, leafleted, leafleteer, leafleteers, leafleting, leaflets, leafletted, leafletting, leaflike, seafloor, seafloors, sheaflike, tetrafluoride, tetrafluorides. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-f-l"
	-1 letter: al, fa, la.
	Words containing the letters "a-f-l"
	+1 letter: alef, alfa, alif, calf, fail, fall, falx, farl, feal, fila, flab, flag, flak, flam, flan, flap, flat, flaw, flax, flay, flea, foal, half, leaf, loaf.
	+2 letters: afoul, alefs, alfas, alifs, aloft, aloof, awful, calfs, calif, fable, fails, falls, false, farle, farls, fatal, fatly, fauld, fault, fecal, fella, feral, fetal, filar, final, flabs, flack, flags, flail, flair, flake, flaky, flame, flams, flamy, flank, flans, flaps, flare, flash, flask, flats, flaws, flawy, flaxy, flays, fleam, fleas, float, flora, flota, foals, focal, folia, frail, fugal, kalif, leafs, leafy, loafs, loofa, luffa, offal, pilaf, sulfa.
	+3 letters: afflux, afield, aflame, afloat, aidful, aimful, alfaki, armful, artful, baffle, bagful, barfly, befall, beflag, beflea, behalf, califs, canful, capful, carful, daftly, dayfly, deafly, deflea, earful, fabled, fabler, fables, facial, facile, facula, faecal, failed, faille, fairly, falces, falcon, fallal, fallen, faller, fallow, falser, falsie, falter, family, famuli, fardel, farfal, farfel, farles, faucal, faulds, faults, faulty, faunal, favela, fealty, featly, fecial, fecula, fellah, fellas, female, ferial, ferula, festal, fetial, feudal, fibula, filial, finale, finals, finial, fiscal, flabby, flacks, flacon, flaggy, flagon, flails, flairs, flaked, flaker, flakes, flakey, flambe, flamed, flamen, flamer, flames, flanes, flange, flanks, flappy, flared, flares, flashy, flasks, flatly, flatus, flaunt, flavin, flavor, flawed, flaxen, flaxes, flayed, flayer, fleams, floats, floaty, florae, floral, floras, flotas, flyman, flyway, foaled, foetal, folate, foliar, fontal, formal, foveal, frails, frazil, frugal, fulcra, fulham, fullam, fulmar, fungal, gadfly, hatful, infall, jarful, kalifs, khalif, lapful, lawful, layoff, leafed, loafed, loafer, loofah, loofas, luffas, malfed, manful, mayfly, offals, panful, pilaff, pilafs, raffle, refall, safely, safrol, salify, sawfly, sclaff, sulfas, vatful, waeful, waffle.
	+4 letters: affable, affably, affinal, affixal, afflict, airflow, airfoil, airlift, alewife, alfakis, alfalfa, alfaqui, alforja, aliform, aloofly, amplify, antiflu, armfuls, armsful, ashfall, awfully, baffled, baffler, baffles, bagfuls, bagsful, bailiff, baleful, baneful, bashful, batfowl, beefalo, befalls, beflags, befleas, bifilar, bifocal, boatful, boffola, buffalo, cageful, calcify, canfuls, cansful, capfuls, careful, carfuls, catfall, clarify, coalify, cowflap, daffily, dareful, default, deflate, defleas, dewfall, earflap, earfuls, easeful, effable, endleaf, enflame, fablers, fabliau, fabling, fabular, facials, factful, factual, faculae, facular, faculty, fadable, fadedly, failing, failles, failure, faintly, falafel, falbala, falcate, falcons, fallacy, fallals, fallers, falling, falloff, fallout, fallows, falsely, falsest, falsies, falsify, falsity, falters, famulus, fancily, fanfold, fanlike, fantail, fardels, farfals, farfels, fascial, fatally, fateful, fatless, fatlike, fatling, fattily, faucals, faucial, faulted, favelas, favella, fearful, fecials, feculae, federal, felafel, fellahs, fellate, felspar, felucca, females, femoral, fenagle, fenland, ferulae, ferulas, fetials, fibulae, fibular, fibulas, figural, filaree, filaria, filiate, finable, finagle, finales, finalis, finally, finials, finical, fiscals, fistula, fixable, flaccid, flacked, flacons, flagged, flagger, flagman, flagmen, flagons, flailed, flakers, flakier, flakily, flaking, flambee, flambes, flamens, flamers, flamier, flaming, flammed, flaneur, flanged, flanger, flanges, flanked, flanken, flanker, flannel, flapped, flapper, flareup, flaring, flashed, flasher, flashes, flasket, flatbed, flatcap, flatcar, flatlet, flatted, flatten, flatter, flattop, flaunts, flaunty, flavine, flavins, flavone, flavors, flavory, flavour, flawier, flawing, flaxier, flayers, flaying, fleabag, fleapit, floated, floatel, floater, flokati, florals, flotage, flotsam, flowage, fluidal, fluvial, flyable, flyaway, flyboat, flyleaf, flypast, flytrap, flyways, foaling, foamily, focally, folacin, folates, foliage, foliate, folkway, formals, formula, foulard, foveola, foxtail, fractal, fragile, frailer, frailly, frailty, frankly, frazils, frazzle, frenula, friable, friarly, frontal, fugally, fulhams, fullams, fulmars, funeral, fungals, furcula, futural, gainful, gallfly, halfway, handful, harmful, hateful, hatfuls, hatsful, hayloft, icefall, infalls, inflame, inflate, jarfuls, jarsful, khalifa, khalifs, lapfuls, layoffs, leadoff, leafage, leafier, leafing, leaflet, lifeway, liftman, loafers, loafing, loofahs, malefic, moanful, mudflap, mudflat, offload, outfall, pailful, painful, palfrey, panfuls, peafowl, pilaffs, pitfall, plafond, playful, playoff, qualify, rackful, raffled, raffler, raffles, refalls, reflate, refloat, refusal, refutal, sackful, safrole, safrols, salsify, sandfly, sclaffs, seafowl, shadfly, snaffle, sulfate, swayful, tactful, tailfan, tankful, tearful, trayful, vatfuls, waffled, waffler, waffles, wailful, wakeful, wameful, welfare, wolfram.
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