px
The verdict
“px” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #36,118) as a symbol. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #36,118
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Symbole du pixel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-px · px · French
px · rank #36,118 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,118
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH puissamment
Nearest frequency peer: puissamment (-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 « px »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- préconisati…
préconisations
63,886 corpus weight
- PSV
PSV
63,885 corpus weight
- puissamment
puissamment
63,884 corpus weight
- px
px
63,883 corpus weight
- pénalisation
pénalisation
63,882 corpus weight
- Quercy
Quercy
63,880 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « px » 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 | px |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Symbol |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #36,118 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « px »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for px is neighbouring look-alikes ("Py", "P", …), not just typos; it is asymbol. Frequency #36,118 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Gloss: "Symbole du pixel.".
px has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Py", "P", "pu", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is px, spelled P-X.
Definition
- 1Symbole du pixel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how px appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le nouveau modèle de ce constructeur s’affiche avec une dalle Amoled de 6,43 pouces (2 000 x 1 080 px).
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.