PLS

\pe.ɛ.l‿ɛs\

/\pe.ɛ.l‿ɛs\/ noun

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The verdict

“PLS” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #21,725) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#21,725
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Position latérale de sécurité.

Corpus desk

Index FR-pls · PLS · French

PLS · rank #21,725 · 0 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #21,725
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-0 0 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH poliment

Nearest frequency peer: poliment (+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 « PLS »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « PLS » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

PLS vs pu
0% similar
PLS vs PS
67% similar
PLS vs PQ
33% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for PLS
PropertyValue
HeadwordPLS
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pe.ɛ.l‿ɛs\
Letters3
Frequency rank#21,725
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « PLS »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.PLSse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « poliment » (#21,726), « persécutés » (#21,723), « pons » (#21,727). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « PLS » est au #21,725. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for PLS is neighbouring look-alikes ("pu", "PS", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \pe.ɛ.l‿ɛs\. Frequency #21,725 among 6,826 “P” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

PLS doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. 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.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is PLS, spelled P-L-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Position latérale de sécurité.
  2. 2
    Position latérale de sécurité au sens : position de repli.
  3. 3
    Position latérale de sécurité au sens : position délicate, situation inconfortable, etc.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how PLS appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La PLS, qu’on appelle également décubitus latéral, permet de libérer les voies aériennes et aux éventuelles sécrétions de sortir sans problème.
  2. Top 50 des situations où tu as envie de te mettre en PLS

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "PLS"?
"PLS" is spelled P-L-S. The IPA pronunciation is \pe.ɛ.l‿ɛs\.
What does "PLS" mean?
As a noun, "PLS" means: Position latérale de sécurité.
What words are commonly confused with "PLS"?
"PLS" is commonly confused with "pu", "PS", "PQ". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "PLS"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "PLS" is \pe.ɛ.l‿ɛs\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "PLS" come from?
"PLS" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "PLS", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

OGC#21,709raz#21,750luz#21,684tal#21,788

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list