PLM
\pe.ɛl.ɛm\
The verdict
“PLM” is uncommon French (frequency #52,905 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,905
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualifie une loi française modifiant le mode de scrutin municipal dans les villes à arrondissements (Paris, Lyon et Marseille).
Corpus desk
Index FR-plm · PLM · French
PLM · rank #52,905 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,905
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH plannings
Nearest frequency peer: plannings (-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 « PLM »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Plamondon
Plamondon
47,099 corpus weight
- planait
planait
47,098 corpus weight
- plannings
plannings
47,097 corpus weight
- PLM
PLM
47,096 corpus weight
- polka
polka
47,095 corpus weight
- Pollet
Pollet
47,094 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « PLM » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | PLM |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pe.ɛl.ɛm\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #52,905 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « PLM » en français
Rare enough to double-check
PLM is uncommon French at frequency #52,905 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pe.ɛl.ɛm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qualifie une loi française modifiant le mode de scrutin municipal dans les villes à arrondissements (Paris, Lyon et Marseille).".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for PLM, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is PLM, spelled P-L-M.
Definition
- 1Qualifie une loi française modifiant le mode de scrutin municipal dans les villes à arrondissements (Paris, Lyon et Marseille).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how PLM appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En 1983, Gaston Defferre, maire socialiste de Marseille et artisan de la loi PLM, a remporté l’élection dans la cité phocéenne avec un total de voix moins important que son adversaire Jean-Claude Gaudin.
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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