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- F. B. J. KuiperDutch linguist (1907–2003)
- Family literacyForm of literacy education
- Fan translationUnofficial translations made by fans
- Fan translation of video gamesUnofficially translated media
- FandubFans audio recording a translation for media that has none
- FanqieClassical Chinese phonetic indicators
- FansubPractice of fans adding translation subtitles to media that has none
- Fear of missing outFeeling of worry about lost opportunities
- Feature (linguistics)In linguistics, a feature is any characteristic used to classify a phoneme or word. These
- Feeding orderRelation between rules in linguistics
- Feminist language reformEffort to change how language is used to gender people, activities and ideas
- FestschriftIn academia, a Festschrift (German pronunciation: ; plural, Festschriften ) is a book hono
- Fewer versus lessGrammatical usage debate
- Fictive motionFictive motion is the metaphorical motion of an object or abstraction through space. Ficti
- Filler (linguistics)Words or sounds used without meaning, like "umm" or "Err.."
- Final-obstruent devoicingPhonological process
- Finite verbVerb form that can complete an independent clause by itself
- Finnish languageFinnic language
- Finno-Ugric transcriptionPhonetic alphabet for Uralic languages
- Flat adverbAdverb that is the same as its adjective form
- Floating toneA floating tone is a morpheme or element of a morpheme that contains neither consonants no
- FluencyAbility to deliver information quickly and correctly
- Focus (linguistics)Grammatical category for new or contrastive information
- Folk definitionDefinition used in everyday communication
- Folk linguisticsAspect of linguistic studies
- Force dynamicsSemantic category
- Foreign language anxietyUnease when using a foreign language
- Forensic linguisticsApplication of linguistics to forensics
- Formal grammarStructure of a formal language
- Formal semantics (natural language)Formal study of linguistic meaning
- FormantSpectrum of phonetic resonance in speech production
- Formulaic languageUtterances with fixed forms and often non-literal meaning
- Fortis and lenisPhonemically contrasting consonant sounds
- Fossil wordBroadly obsolete words that remain in idiomatic use
- Frame-based terminologyApproach to terminology
- Fred HouseholderFred Walter Householder, Jr. (February 1, 1913 – January 4, 1994) was an American linguist
- Fred KilgourFrederick Gridley Kilgour (January 6, 1914 – July 31, 2006) was an American librarian and
- Frederick JelinekCzech linguist (1932–2010)
- Frederick NewmeyerFrederick J. (Fritz) Newmeyer (born January 30, 1944) is an American linguist who is Profe
- Free variationIn linguistics, free variation is the phenomenon of two (or more) sounds or forms appearin
- French adverbsAdverbs in French, like in English, are used to modify adjectives, other adverbs, and verb
- French grammarGrammar of the French language
- French verbsParts of speech in French grammar
- FrequentativeGrammatical aspect that indicates repeated action over multiple occasions or places
- FricativeConsonants produced by forcing air through a narrow channel
- Front vowelType of vowel
- Fronting (sound change)Sound changes
- Function wordWords supplying mainly grammatical information, rather than content information
- Functional illiteracyInadequate reading and writing skills for everyday purposes
- Functional linguisticsApproach to linguistics
- Fundamental frequencyLowest frequency of a periodic waveform, such as sound
- Fusion (phonetics)Type of linguistic sound change
- Fusional languageLanguage where one kind of inflection indicates multiple changes of aspect
- Future perfectGrammatical tense+aspect indicating an event will have finished by a future time
- Future tenseGrammatical tense