PMI
\pe.ɛ.mi\
The verdict
“PMI” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #24,329) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #24,329
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - « Protection maternelle et infantile », système de protection de la mère et de l’enfant, créé en 1945 par le ministre de la santé de l’époque ; la PMI est un service public.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pmi · PMI · French
PMI · rank #24,329 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,329
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH plaignait
Nearest frequency peer: plaignait (-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 « PMI »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- pitre
pitre
75,675 corpus weight
- pizzeria
pizzeria
75,674 corpus weight
- plaignait
plaignait
75,673 corpus weight
- PMI
PMI
75,672 corpus weight
- pneumatique
pneumatique
75,671 corpus weight
- pointues
pointues
75,670 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « PMI » 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 | PMI |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pe.ɛ.mi\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #24,329 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « PMI »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for PMI is neighbouring look-alikes ("pu", "PS", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \pe.ɛ.mi\. Frequency #24,329 among 6,826 “P” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for PMI in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is PMI, spelled P-M-I.
Definition
- 1« Protection maternelle et infantile », système de protection de la mère et de l’enfant, créé en 1945 par le ministre de la santé de l’époque ; la PMI est un service public.
- 2Les locaux de la protection maternelle infantile.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how PMI appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Par mesure de sécurité, tous les réseaux de la collectivité sont coupés, mais les services publics (MDS, PAT, MDPH, PMI, etc.) restent ouverts au public et opérationnels.
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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