P4
\pe.katʁ\
The verdict
“P4” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #46,332) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #46,332
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - Réformé pour problèmes psychiques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-p4 · P4 · French
P4 · rank #46,332 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,332
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH oxygénation
Nearest frequency peer: oxygénation (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “P4”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- oust
oust
53,673 corpus weight
- outrés
outrés
53,672 corpus weight
- oxygénation
oxygénation
53,670 corpus weight
- P4
P4
53,669 corpus weight
- paierai
paierai
53,668 corpus weight
- Parcoursup
Parcoursup
53,666 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “P4” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | P4 |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pe.katʁ\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #46,332 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “P4” sits in French frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for P4 is neighbouring look-alikes ("pu", "PS", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \pe.katʁ\. Frequency #46,332 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Gloss: "Réformé pour problèmes psychiques.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for P4, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pu", "PS", "PQ", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 P4, spelled P-4.
Definition
- 1Réformé pour problèmes psychiques.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how P4 appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce serait plus difficile de tromper la vigilance et la bonne foi des experts en psychiatrie, psychosociologie et psychocriminologie qui lui étaient dévolus que celles des psychologues militaires qui l’avaient classé P4.
Synonyms
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.