CM2
\se.ɛm.dø\
The verdict
“CM2” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #18,150) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #18,150
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cinquième et dernière classe de l’école élémentaire et seconde du cycle des approfondissements (Cycle 3).
Corpus desk
Index FR-cm2 · CM2 · French
CM2 · rank #18,150 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,150
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chênes
Nearest frequency peer: chênes (-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 « CM2 »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- chaussées
chaussées
81,854 corpus weight
- chlore
chlore
81,853 corpus weight
- chênes
chênes
81,852 corpus weight
- CM2
CM2
81,851 corpus weight
- CNN
CNN
81,850 corpus weight
- colliers
colliers
81,849 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « CM2 » 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 | CM2 |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \se.ɛm.dø\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #18,150 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « CM2 »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for CM2 is neighbouring look-alikes ("co", "CV", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \se.ɛm.dø\. Frequency #18,150 among 8,609 “C” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Zero misspellings are on record for CM2 in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is CM2, spelled C-M-2.
Definition
- 1Cinquième et dernière classe de l’école élémentaire et seconde du cycle des approfondissements (Cycle 3).
- 2Élèves suivant la classe de CM2.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how CM2 appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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
This word in other languages
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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