PTC
\pe.te.se\
The verdict
“PTC” is uncommon French (frequency #85,170 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,170
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Liquide pour cigarette électronique contenant 90% de THC.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ptc · PTC · French
PTC · rank #85,170 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,170
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prônées
Nearest frequency peer: prônées (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « PTC »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- prédétermin…
prédéterminée
14,835 corpus weight
- prévoyants
prévoyants
14,833 corpus weight
- prônées
prônées
14,832 corpus weight
- PTC
PTC
14,831 corpus weight
- pubien
pubien
14,830 corpus weight
- pubères
pubères
14,829 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « PTC » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | PTC |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pe.te.se\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #85,170 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « PTC » en français
Rare enough to double-check
PTC is uncommon French at frequency #85,170 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pe.te.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Liquide pour cigarette électronique contenant 90% de THC.".
No misspelling variants are generated for PTC in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is PTC, spelled P-T-C.
Definition
- 1Liquide pour cigarette électronique contenant 90% de THC.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how PTC appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sur la table, fleur de cannabis, résine, spacecake (pâtisserie relevée au hachich), PTC ou « pete ton crâne » (liquide pour cigarette électrique à 90% de THC) et une impressionnante collection de pochons personnalisés d’après les codes de la pop culture.
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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