PDV
\pe.de.ve\
The verdict
“PDV” is uncommon French (frequency #69,302 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,302
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abréviation de point de vente.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pdv · PDV · French
PDV · rank #69,302 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,302
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH payment
Nearest frequency peer: payment (-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 « PDV »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- patro
patro
30,702 corpus weight
- payerais
payerais
30,701 corpus weight
- payment
payment
30,700 corpus weight
- PDV
PDV
30,699 corpus weight
- pellegrino
pellegrino
30,698 corpus weight
- pelvien
pelvien
30,697 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « PDV » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | PDV |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pe.de.ve\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #69,302 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « PDV » en français
Rare enough to double-check
PDV is uncommon French at frequency #69,302 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pe.de.ve\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Abréviation de point de vente.".
PDV has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is PDV, spelled P-D-V.
Definition
- 1Abréviation de point de vente.
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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