PHP
\pe.aʃ.pe\
The verdict
“PHP” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,939) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,939
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langage de programmation, qui est interprété soit par un serveur web (mode FPM) ou par une console (mode CLI).
Corpus desk
Index FR-php · PHP · French
PHP · rank #19,939 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,939
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH penseur
Nearest frequency peer: penseur (-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 « PHP »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- pea
pea
80,065 corpus weight
- pendule
pendule
80,064 corpus weight
- penseur
penseur
80,063 corpus weight
- PHP
PHP
80,062 corpus weight
- pistolets
pistolets
80,060 corpus weight
- piété
piété
80,059 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « PHP » 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 | PHP |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \pe.aʃ.pe\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #19,939 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « PHP »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for PHP is neighbouring look-alikes ("pu", "PS", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced \pe.aʃ.pe\. Frequency #19,939 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Gloss: "Langage de programmation, qui est interprété soit par un serveur web (mode FPM) ou par une console (mode CLI).".
PHP doesn't appear in our generated misspelling 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, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is PHP, spelled P-H-P.
Definition
- 1Langage de programmation, qui est interprété soit par un serveur web (mode FPM) ou par une console (mode CLI).
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).