PE
French, noun
PE is spelled P-E (2 letters) and appears 3.7 times per million words in written French, the 13,759th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). PE is a French masculine noun meaning “PE (“polyethylene”); abbreviation of polyéthylène” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, pé is a different word: “The name of the Latin script letter P/p”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Polyéthylène”.
What does PE mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinePE (“polyethylene”); abbreviation of polyéthylène
noun
- 1
masculineThe name of the Latin script letter P/p.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Autre orthographe de pé (פ, forme finale ף), dix-septième lettre des alphabets hébreu et phénicien.
noun: 1. Langue mineure platoïde parlée au Nigéria.
noun: 1. Dix-septième lettre de l’alphabet cyrillique, п.
noun: 1. Polyéthylène.
noun: 1. Parlement européen.
noun: 1. Lettre latine P, p.
noun: 1. פ (forme finale ף), dix-septième lettre des alphabets hébreu et phénicien. En présence d’un daguèch, la lettre devient phé.
adverb: 1. Peut-être.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of PE
- pés plural
- pes plural
- pé
- phe
- phé
- pe
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to PE
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is PE in French?
PE appears 3.7 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).