PVC
\pe.ve.se\
The verdict
“PVC” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #32,540) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #32,540
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Polychlorure de vinyle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pvc · PVC · French
PVC · rank #32,540 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,540
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH publi
Nearest frequency peer: publi (-2 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 « PVC »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- prouvera
prouvera
67,465 corpus weight
- prévenez
prévenez
67,464 corpus weight
- publi
publi
67,463 corpus weight
- PVC
PVC
67,461 corpus weight
- pénitentiai…
pénitentiaires
67,459 corpus weight
- quils
quils
67,458 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « PVC » 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 | PVC |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pe.ve.se\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #32,540 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « PVC »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for PVC is neighbouring look-alikes ("Py", "px", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \pe.ve.se\. Frequency #32,540 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Gloss: "Polychlorure de vinyle.".
No misspelling variants are generated for PVC in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Py", "px", "PVP", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is PVC, spelled P-V-C.
Definition
- 1Polychlorure de vinyle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how PVC appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les polyoléfines entrent donc dans un marché très dynamique de produits de spécialité et de grande diffusion. De plus, à la différence du PVC, elles ne libèrent lors de leur combustion que des sous-produits inoffensifs (dioxyde de carbone et eau).
L’article ne donne pas de détails concrets sur ces risques pour la santé humaine, à part pour le PVC, considéré comme « le plus dangereux » des polymères, et dont l’ingestion peut augmenter les risques de maladies pulmonaires ou lymphatiques.
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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