pcs
\pus\
The verdict
“pcs” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #40,914) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #40,914
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abréviation de pouces.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pcs · pcs · French
pcs · rank #40,914 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,914
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH patronal
Nearest frequency peer: patronal (-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 « pcs »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- passionnant…
passionnantes
59,091 corpus weight
- patriarches
patriarches
59,089 corpus weight
- patronal
patronal
59,088 corpus weight
- pcs
pcs
59,087 corpus weight
- peinard
peinard
59,086 corpus weight
- persistants
persistants
59,084 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « pcs » 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 | pcs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pus\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #40,914 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « pcs »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for pcs is neighbouring look-alikes ("pu", "PS", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \pus\. Frequency #40,914 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Gloss: "Abréviation de pouces.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pcs, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is pcs, spelled P-C-S.
Definition
- 1Abréviation de pouces.
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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