PM
The verdict
“PM” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #11,830) as a symbol. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #11,830
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Post meridiem (après-midi).
Corpus desk
Index FR-pm · PM · French
PM · rank #11,830 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,830
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pianiste
Nearest frequency peer: pianiste (-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 « PM »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- permette
permette
88,174 corpus weight
- photographes
photographes
88,173 corpus weight
- pianiste
pianiste
88,172 corpus weight
- PM
PM
88,171 corpus weight
- pochette
pochette
88,170 corpus weight
- portugaise
portugaise
88,169 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « PM » 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 | PM |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Symbol |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #11,830 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « PM »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for PM is neighbouring look-alikes ("pu", "PS", …), not just typos; it is asymbol. Frequency #11,830 among 6,826 “P” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for PM, 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is PM, spelled P-M.
Definition
- 1Post meridiem (après-midi).
- 2Code ISO 3166-1 (alpha-2) de Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon.
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.