PBC
"pbc" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“PBC” is uncommon English (frequency #65,391 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,391
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Initialism of primary biliary cholangitis.
Corpus desk
Index EN-pbc · PBC · English
PBC · rank #65,391 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,391
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH Pawar
Nearest frequency peer: Pawar (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “PBC”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- parm
parm
34,614 corpus weight
- Pastore
Pastore
34,613 corpus weight
- Pawar
Pawar
34,611 corpus weight
- PBC
PBC
34,610 corpus weight
- peacemaking
peacemaking
34,609 corpus weight
- Peloponnesi…
Peloponnesian
34,607 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “PBC” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | PBC |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #65,391 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “PBC” in English
Rare enough to double-check
PBC is uncommon English at frequency #65,391 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for PBC in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is PBC, spelled P-B-C.
Definition
- 1Initialism of primary biliary cholangitis.
- 2Initialism of primary biliary cirrhosis.
- 3Initialism of public benefit corporation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how PBC appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] A PBC legally has to try to make profits for shareholders alongside pursuing a designated “public benefit” (in this case, building “safe” and “beneficial” AI as outlined in OpenAI’s founding mission).
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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