pds
\pje\
The verdict
“pds” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #39,931) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #39,931
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de pd.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pds · pds · French
pds · rank #39,931 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,931
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH patrouilleurs
Nearest frequency peer: patrouilleurs (-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 « pds »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- passionnel
passionnel
60,073 corpus weight
- pastels
pastels
60,072 corpus weight
- patrouilleu…
patrouilleurs
60,071 corpus weight
- pds
pds
60,070 corpus weight
- peach
peach
60,069 corpus weight
- pedigree
pedigree
60,068 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « pds » 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 | pds |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pje\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #39,931 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « pds »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for pds is neighbouring look-alikes ("pu", "PS", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \pje\. Frequency #39,931 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Gloss: "Pluriel de pd.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for pds in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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 explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is pds, spelled P-D-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de pd.
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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