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p

French, letter

p is spelled P (one letter) and appears 229 times per million words in written French, the 366th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). P is a French letter meaning “The fifteenth letter of the French alphabet, written in the Latin script” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, P is a different word: “The sixteenth letter of the French alphabet, written in the Latin…”. On this page, p. is a different word: “abbreviation of page”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Seizième lettre et douzième consonne de l’alphabet (minuscule)”.

What does p mean in English?

letter

  1. 1

    The fifteenth letter of the French alphabet, written in the Latin script.

letter

as P
  1. 1

    The sixteenth letter of the French alphabet, written in the Latin script.

noun

as p.
  1. 1

    feminineabbreviation of page

  2. 2

    feminineabbreviation of pages

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

letter: 1. Seizième lettre et treizième consonne de l’alphabet (majuscule).

letter: 1. Seizième lettre et douzième consonne de l’alphabet (minuscule).

noun: 1. Putain.

symbol: 1. Abréviation de page ou pages. Note d’usage : Utilisée dans les références bibliographiques pour désigner le numéro de page citée.

noun: 1. Père, titre donné aux prêtres des ordres religieux chrétiens.

symbol: 1. Symbole du degré Plato.

symbol: 1. Point de pourcentage.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of p

  • P uppercase
  • p lowercase
  • pp. plural
  • p... canonical
  • p****n
  • PP. plural
  • pp

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to p

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is p in French?

p appears 229 times per million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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