PLS
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#21,725
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
PLS is aFrenchnoun. It means: Position latérale de sécurité. Pronounced \pe.ɛ.l‿ɛs\. Often confused with pu and PS.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | PLS |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pe.ɛ.l‿ɛs\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #21,725 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for PLS is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pe.ɛ.l‿ɛs\. Corpus data places it at rank #21,725 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for PLS in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is PLS, spelled P-L-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Position latérale de sécurité.
- 2Position latérale de sécurité au sens : position de repli.
- 3Position latérale de sécurité au sens : position délicate, situation inconfortable, etc.
Frequency rank: #21,725 in French
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