PTR
\pe.te.ɛʁ\
The verdict
“PTR” is uncommon French (frequency #83,283 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,283
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Enregistrement DNS indiquant à quel nom d'hôte correspond une adresse IP.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ptr · PTR · French
PTR · rank #83,283 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,283
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pune
Nearest frequency peer: pune (+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 « PTR »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- prédisposés
prédisposés
16,721 corpus weight
- préfigurant
préfigurant
16,720 corpus weight
- PTR
PTR
16,718 corpus weight
- pune
pune
16,717 corpus weight
- punitifs
punitifs
16,716 corpus weight
- pura
pura
16,715 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « PTR » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | PTR |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pe.te.ɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #83,283 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « PTR » en français
Rare enough to double-check
PTR is uncommon French at frequency #83,283 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pe.te.ɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Enregistrement DNS indiquant à quel nom d'hôte correspond une adresse IP.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for PTR, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 PTR, spelled P-T-R.
Definition
- 1Enregistrement DNS indiquant à quel nom d'hôte correspond une adresse IP.
This word in other languages
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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