PVT
The verdict
“PVT” is uncommon French (frequency #54,819 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,819
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Possibilité donnée aux jeunes de passer des vacances dans un pays étranger en ayant le droit d’y travailler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pvt · PVT · French
PVT · rank #54,819 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,819
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH puritanisme
Nearest frequency peer: puritanisme (-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 « PVT »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- PSL
PSL
45,185 corpus weight
- puritanisme
puritanisme
45,183 corpus weight
- PVT
PVT
45,182 corpus weight
- pâtit
pâtit
45,181 corpus weight
- périmées
périmées
45,179 corpus weight
- quarterly
quarterly
45,178 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « PVT » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | PVT |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #54,819 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « PVT » en français
Rare enough to double-check
PVT is uncommon French at frequency #54,819 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Possibilité donnée aux jeunes de passer des vacances dans un pays étranger en ayant le droit d’y travailler.".
No misspelling variants are generated for PVT in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is PVT, spelled P-V-T.
Definition
- 1Possibilité donnée aux jeunes de passer des vacances dans un pays étranger en ayant le droit d’y travailler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how PVT appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Ils sont loin de France, donc on fait le maximum pour qu’ils se sentent comme à la maison, en confiance et soutenus », nous explique Loïs (23 ans), qui entame sa deuxième année de PVT (permis vacances travail) en Australie.
Le PVT vous permet de voyager et de travailler dans l'ensemble du Canada.
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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