PTT
\pe.te.te\
The verdict
“PTT” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #40,940) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #40,940
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancienne administration proposant des services de poste, télégraphe et téléphone.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ptt · PTT · French
PTT · rank #40,940 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,940
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH préfète
Nearest frequency peer: préfète (-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 « PTT »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- précisez
précisez
59,064 corpus weight
- préemption
préemption
59,063 corpus weight
- préfète
préfète
59,062 corpus weight
- PTT
PTT
59,061 corpus weight
- puait
puait
59,060 corpus weight
- pulvérisati…
pulvérisation
59,059 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « PTT » 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 | PTT |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \pe.te.te\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #40,940 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « PTT »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for PTT is neighbouring look-alikes ("pu", "PV", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced \pe.te.te\. Frequency #40,940 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Gloss: "Ancienne administration proposant des services de poste, télégraphe et téléphone.".
No misspelling variants are generated for PTT in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pu", "PV", "Py", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 PTT, spelled P-T-T.
Definition
- 1Ancienne administration proposant des services de poste, télégraphe et téléphone.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how PTT appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les moins audacieux s'arrêtaient à Marseille où les attendait une vie de fonctionnaire dans les Douanes ou les PTT. D'autres, moins chanceux, optaient pour les arsenaux de Toulon […].
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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