CM1

\se.ɛ.m‿œ̃\

/\se.ɛ.m‿œ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“CM1” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #26,672) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#26,672
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Quatrième classe de l’école élémentaire et première classe du cycle de consolidation.

Corpus desk

Index FR-cm1 · CM1 · French

CM1 · rank #26,672 · 0 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #26,672
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-0 0 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH clôturer

Nearest frequency peer: clôturer (-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 « CM1 »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « CM1 » 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).

CM1 vs co
0% similar
CM1 vs CV
33% similar
CM1 vs Ct
33% similar

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

Key facts for CM1
PropertyValue
HeadwordCM1
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\se.ɛ.m‿œ̃\
Letters3
Frequency rank#26,672
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « CM1 »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).CM1se place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « clôturer » (#26,671), « commerçante » (#26,673), « Clotilde » (#26,670). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « CM1 » est au #26,672. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for CM1 is neighbouring look-alikes ("co", "CV", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \se.ɛ.m‿œ̃\. Frequency #26,672 among 8,609 “C” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for CM1, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "co", "CV", "Ct", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is CM1, spelled C-M-1.

Definition

  1. 1
    Quatrième classe de l’école élémentaire et première classe du cycle de consolidation.
  2. 2
    Élèves suivant la classe de CM1.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how CM1 appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Les élèves de CM1 et CM2 ont reçu des mains du Maire et de Jacques Gruber, adjoint au maire délégué à l’Éducation, leur passeport du civisme.
  2. Le collège alors n’était pas automatique. Le parcours naturel ce n’était pas CM1, CM2, 6ᵉ. Il y avait l’élite qui allait au collège et le reste allait en troupeau à l’école des pauvres : les ratés.

Synonyms

huitième

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 "CM1"?
"CM1" is spelled C-M-1. The IPA pronunciation is \se.ɛ.m‿œ̃\.
What does "CM1" mean?
As a noun, "CM1" means: Quatrième classe de l’école élémentaire et première classe du cycle de consolidation.
What words are commonly confused with "CM1"?
"CM1" is commonly confused with "co", "CV", "Ct". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "CM1"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "CM1" is \se.ɛ.m‿œ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "CM1" come from?
"CM1" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "CM1", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

fab#26,727kia#26,775LGV#26,784lib#26,785

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list