PCF
\pe.se.ɛf\
The verdict
“PCF” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,887) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,887
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Parti communiste français, parti de gauche radicale communiste souverainiste et modérément eurosceptique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pcf · PCF · French
PCF · rank #9,887 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,887
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH opérationnel
Nearest frequency peer: opérationnel (-2 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 « PCF »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- normales
normales
90,118 corpus weight
- nuance
nuance
90,117 corpus weight
- opérationnel
opérationnel
90,116 corpus weight
- PCF
PCF
90,114 corpus weight
- Picardie
Picardie
90,112 corpus weight
- pleut
pleut
90,111 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « PCF » 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 | PCF |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \pe.se.ɛf\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #9,887 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « PCF »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for PCF is neighbouring look-alikes ("pu", "PS", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced \pe.se.ɛf\. Frequency #9,887 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Gloss: "Parti communiste français, parti de gauche radicale communiste souverainiste et modérément eurosceptique.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for PCF, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pu", "PS", "PQ", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is PCF, spelled P-C-F.
Definition
- 1Parti communiste français, parti de gauche radicale communiste souverainiste et modérément eurosceptique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how PCF appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Actuellement le jeu chiraquien, malgré son ineptie, a le mérite d'empêcher le glissement d'une fraction de l’électorat « autoritaire » vers le PCF.
Pour protester contre « la maltraitance des enfants et des parents de Gennevilliers » par le gouvernement actuel, le maire PCF de la commune, Patrice Leclerc, a refusé mercredi d’accueillir Olivier Dussopt, ministre du Travail et Carole Grandjean, ministre chargée de l’Enseignement et de la Formation professionnelle, au CFA Altral.
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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