px

symbol

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

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.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

px vs Py
0% similar
px vs P
0% similar
px vs pu
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for px
PropertyValue
Headwordpx
LanguageFrench
Part of speechSymbol
Letters2
Frequency rank#36,118
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « px »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).pxse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « puissamment » (#36,117), « pénalisation » (#36,119), « PSV » (#36,116). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « px » est au #36,118. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Symbole du pixel.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how px appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "px"?
"px" is spelled P-X.
What does "px" mean?
As a symbol, "px" means: Symbole du pixel.
What words are commonly confused with "px"?
"px" is commonly confused with "Py", "P", "pu". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "px" come from?
"px" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list