Alfa
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Scrabble:7 ptsWWF:8 pts4 letters
Definition of Alfa
Noun
- Alternative letter-case form of Alfa of the ICAO/NATO radiotelephony alphabet.
Noun
- Alternative letter-case form of Alfa from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
- Alternative spelling of alpha used in the ruleset of the international nonproprietary name system, where various digraphs are usually deprecated (except for grandfathered exceptions) because their replacement is translingually preferable (thus, for example, f, not ph; t, not th; and e, not ae).<!--For anyone interested, representative references include MedNet's basic INN documentation and also an interesting article at PMCID: PMC4689353, PMID: 26701761.-->