PME
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,800
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
PME is aFrenchnoun. It means: Entreprise petite ou moyenne (dont la taille est supérieure à 10 salariés et inférieure à 250 salariés et dont le chiffre d’affaires annuel n’excède pas 50 millions d’euros). Pronounced \pe.ɛm.ə\. It ranks #5,800 in French word frequency. Often confused with pu and PS.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | PME |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pe.ɛm.ə\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #5,800 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for PME is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pe.ɛm.ə\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,800 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for PME 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 PME, spelled P-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Entreprise petite ou moyenne (dont la taille est supérieure à 10 salariés et inférieure à 250 salariés et dont le chiffre d’affaires annuel n’excède pas 50 millions d’euros).
- 2Pour désigner une entreprise appartenant la catégorie des PME.
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Frequency rank: #5,800 in French
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