PGA
The verdict
“PGA” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #40,920) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #40,920
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prime versée aux membres des forces armées pour leur alimentation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pga · PGA · French
PGA · rank #40,920 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,920
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH peuplier
Nearest frequency peer: peuplier (-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 « PGA »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- persistants
persistants
59,084 corpus weight
- pesto
pesto
59,083 corpus weight
- peuplier
peuplier
59,082 corpus weight
- PGA
PGA
59,081 corpus weight
- PhD
PhD
59,080 corpus weight
- Philadelphia
Philadelphia
59,079 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « PGA » 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 | PGA |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #40,920 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « PGA »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for PGA is neighbouring look-alikes ("pu", "PS", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #40,920 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Gloss: "Prime versée aux membres des forces armées pour leur alimentation.".
PGA has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pu", "PS", "PQ", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is PGA, spelled P-G-A.
Definition
- 1Prime versée aux membres des forces armées pour leur alimentation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how PGA appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les PGA qui partaient de Bangui et qui n’aboutissaient aux destinataires réels, se volatilisaient en cours de route.
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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