PLC
\pe.ɛl.se\
The verdict
“PLC” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #21,423) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #21,423
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Professeur, professeure enseignant dans un lycée ou dans un collège.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plc · PLC · French
PLC · rank #21,423 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,423
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH plant
Nearest frequency peer: plant (-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 « PLC »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- pensionnaire
pensionnaire
78,582 corpus weight
- pierrot
pierrot
78,581 corpus weight
- plant
plant
78,579 corpus weight
- PLC
PLC
78,578 corpus weight
- pluvieux
pluvieux
78,577 corpus weight
- pointant
pointant
78,576 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « PLC » 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 | PLC |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pe.ɛl.se\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #21,423 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « PLC »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for PLC is neighbouring look-alikes ("pu", "PS", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \pe.ɛl.se\. Frequency #21,423 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Gloss: "Professeur, professeure enseignant dans un lycée ou dans un collège.".
Zero misspellings are on record for PLC 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 PLC, spelled P-L-C.
Definition
- 1Professeur, professeure enseignant dans un lycée ou dans un collège.
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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