PDA
\pe.de.a\
The verdict
“PDA” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #33,821) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #33,821
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Assistant numérique personnel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pda · PDA · French
PDA · rank #33,821 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,821
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH PBS
Nearest frequency peer: PBS (-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 « PDA »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- 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
- perdrix
perdrix
66,177 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « PDA » 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 | PDA |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pe.de.a\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #33,821 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « PDA »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for PDA is neighbouring look-alikes ("pu", "PS", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \pe.de.a\. Frequency #33,821 among 6,826 “P” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for PDA, 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, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is PDA, spelled P-D-A.
Definition
- 1Assistant numérique personnel.
- 2Part d’audience.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how PDA appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle avait sorti de son sac – un sac élégant, maintenant, de marque Hermès, en cuir fauve – un gros cahier à spirales bleu. « Non, ça, c’est une chose qui n’a pas changé » dit-elle à Jed en souriant. « Toujours pas de PDA… Mais je me suis modernisée quand même. »
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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