PMQs
"pmqs" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“PMQs” is uncommon English (frequency #50,159 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,159
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Initialism of Prime Minister's Questions.
Corpus desk
Index EN-pmqs · PMQs · English
PMQs · rank #50,159 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,159
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH pleural
Nearest frequency peer: pleural (-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 “PMQs”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- plausibility
plausibility
49,846 corpus weight
- playfulness
playfulness
49,845 corpus weight
- playroom
playroom
49,844 corpus weight
- pleural
pleural
49,843 corpus weight
- PMQs
PMQs
49,842 corpus weight
- predominance
predominance
49,840 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “PMQs” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | PMQs |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #50,159 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “PMQs” in English
Rare enough to double-check
PMQs is uncommon English at frequency #50,159 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for PMQs in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is PMQs, spelled P-M-Q-S.
Definition
- 1Initialism of Prime Minister's Questions.
- 2Initialism of permanent married quarters.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how PMQs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
For nine weeks Green sat by May’s side as serious allegations about his conduct emerged – and the Labour leader never raised a question at PMQs.
David Davis tells Boris Johnson ‘in the name of God, go’ at chaotic PMQs [headline]
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).