PCP
\pe.se.pe\
The verdict
“PCP” is uncommon French (frequency #58,825 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,825
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Volet de la politique agricole commune (PAC) appliqué au secteur halieutique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pcp · PCP · French
PCP · rank #58,825 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,825
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pce
Nearest frequency peer: pce (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « PCP »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pathologiste
pathologiste
41,179 corpus weight
- patienté
patienté
41,178 corpus weight
- pce
pce
41,177 corpus weight
- PCP
PCP
41,176 corpus weight
- pdl
pdl
41,175 corpus weight
- peas
peas
41,174 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « PCP » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | PCP |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pe.se.pe\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #58,825 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « PCP » en français
Rare enough to double-check
PCP is uncommon French at frequency #58,825 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pe.se.pe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for PCP in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is PCP, spelled P-C-P.
Definition
- 1Volet de la politique agricole commune (PAC) appliqué au secteur halieutique.
- 2Collectif de policiers et gendarmes souhaitant la décriminalisation de l’usage des drogues.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how PCP appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’Union européenne est le troisième producteur mondial de pêche et d’aquaculture. Dérivée de la politique agricole commune (PAC), la politique européenne de la pêche (PCP) vise à accroître la productivité de la pêche tout en préservant les ressources halieutiques en imposant notamment des quotas.
« Le PCP est contre la prohibition de toutes les drogues. Mais je ne rêve pas d’un monde où vous pourriez acheter le sachet d’héroïne à l’épicerie du coin. »
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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