PC
\pe.se\
The verdict
“PC” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #2,189) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #2,189
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ordinateur personnel compatible avec l’ordinateur IBM PC, par opposition aux autres ordinateurs personnels.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pc · PC · French
PC · rank #2,189 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,189
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH parfaite
Nearest frequency peer: parfaite (-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 « PC »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- magasin
magasin
97,817 corpus weight
- monte
monte
97,816 corpus weight
- parfaite
parfaite
97,813 corpus weight
- PC
PC
97,812 corpus weight
- pensent
pensent
97,811 corpus weight
- postes
postes
97,809 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « PC » 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 | PC |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pe.se\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #2,189 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « PC »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for PC is neighbouring look-alikes ("pu", "PS", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \pe.se\. Frequency #2,189 among 6,826 “P” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
PC doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, 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, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented 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 PC, spelled P-C.
Definition
- 1Ordinateur personnel compatible avec l’ordinateur IBM PC, par opposition aux autres ordinateurs personnels.
- 2Ordinateur de bureau ou ordinateur fixe, par opposition à un ordinateur portable ou un serveur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how PC appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…], je m'installais devant mon PC. Il devait être environ 20h. Lorsqu'il se connecta quelques minutes plus tard, je le bipais. Nous eûmes du mal au début. En effet, les liaisons transatlantiques ne sont pas toujours des meilleures avec Skype.
Aujourd’hui il est dix heures quarante-quatre et je suis face à mon vieux PC que je maudis pour sa lenteur mais que j’adore pour sa mémoire.
Synonyms
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.