MPs
The verdict
“MPs” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #42,474) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #42,474
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de MP.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mps · MPs · French
MPs · rank #42,474 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,474
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH moustapha
Nearest frequency peer: moustapha (-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 « MPs »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- moro
moro
57,530 corpus weight
- motivent
motivent
57,529 corpus weight
- moustapha
moustapha
57,528 corpus weight
- MPs
MPs
57,527 corpus weight
- muter
muter
57,526 corpus weight
- myrtille
myrtille
57,525 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « MPs » 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 | MPs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #42,474 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « MPs »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for MPs is neighbouring look-alikes ("MR", "my", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #42,474 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Gloss: "Pluriel de MP.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for MPs, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "MR", "my", "ms", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is MPs, spelled M-P-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de MP.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how MPs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The prime minister addressed some of the criticism, saying there was a need to moderate violent language on all sides of the debate. But he was reported to have told Tory MPs on Thursday that he would continue to use his language about the Benn Act (formally called the European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 2) Act 2019) to stop a no-deal Brexit.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).