PBS
\pe.be.ɛs\
The verdict
“PBS” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #33,820) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #33,820
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Public Broadcasting Service, réseau public américain de télévision.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pbs · PBS · French
PBS · rank #33,820 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,820
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH payeurs
Nearest frequency peer: payeurs (-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 « PBS »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- parliez
parliez
66,184 corpus weight
- partagera
partagera
66,183 corpus weight
- payeurs
payeurs
66,182 corpus weight
- PBS
PBS
66,181 corpus weight
- PDA
PDA
66,180 corpus weight
- Peeters
Peeters
66,179 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « PBS » 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 | PBS |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \pe.be.ɛs\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #33,820 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « PBS »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for PBS is neighbouring look-alikes ("pu", "PS", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced \pe.be.ɛs\. Frequency #33,820 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Gloss: "Public Broadcasting Service, réseau public américain de télévision.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for PBS, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is PBS, spelled P-B-S.
Definition
- 1Public Broadcasting Service, réseau public américain de télévision.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how PBS appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après avoir été diffusée aux États-Unis et au Canada sur le réseau PBS et ses stations affiliées, la saison 2 de Free Markets Series …
This word in other languages
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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