FPS
\ɛf.pe.ɛs\
The verdict
“FPS” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #21,021) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #21,021
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jeu de tir en vision subjective, « à la première personne ».
Corpus desk
Index FR-fps · FPS · French
FPS · rank #21,021 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,021
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fournira
Nearest frequency peer: fournira (-1 rank slots)
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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « FPS »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- flotter
flotter
78,983 corpus weight
- fourmi
fourmi
78,982 corpus weight
- fournira
fournira
78,981 corpus weight
- FPS
FPS
78,980 corpus weight
- Frédérique
Frédérique
78,979 corpus weight
- Gallagher
Gallagher
78,978 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « FPS » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | FPS |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛf.pe.ɛs\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #21,021 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « FPS »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for FPS is neighbouring look-alikes ("ft", "Fs", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ɛf.pe.ɛs\. Frequency #21,021 among 3,276 “F” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
FPS has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ft", "Fs", "fun", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is FPS, spelled F-P-S.
Definition
- 1Jeu de tir en vision subjective, « à la première personne ».
- 2Unité permettant de quantifier le nombre d'images par seconde.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).