PMU
\pe.ɛm.y\
The verdict
“PMU” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,944) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,944
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Organisme qui gère les paris sur les courses de chevaux en France.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pmu · PMU · French
PMU · rank #19,944 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,944
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Plagiat
Nearest frequency peer: Plagiat (-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 « PMU »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- pistolets
pistolets
80,060 corpus weight
- piété
piété
80,059 corpus weight
- Plagiat
Plagiat
80,058 corpus weight
- PMU
PMU
80,057 corpus weight
- populiste
populiste
80,056 corpus weight
- porterait
porterait
80,055 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « PMU » 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 | PMU |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \pe.ɛm.y\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #19,944 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « PMU »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for PMU is neighbouring look-alikes ("pu", "PS", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced \pe.ɛm.y\. Frequency #19,944 among 6,826 “P” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No misspelling variants are generated for PMU in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pu", "PS", "PQ", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 PMU, spelled P-M-U.
Definition
- 1Organisme qui gère les paris sur les courses de chevaux en France.
- 2Lieu où on peut parier sur les courses hippiques, et en particulier certains bars habilités.
- 3Turf, activités liées aux courses hippiques et en particulier les paris.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how PMU appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
jouer au PMU
C’était une mauvais passe. Ils comptaient le moindre sou. Je sais pas comment tu t’arranges disait le père, je sais vraiment pas comment tu t’arranges, et la mère disait que s’il n’y avait pas le PMU elle s’arrangerait sûrement mieux.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).