CMA
\se.ɛm.a\
The verdict
“CMA” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #36,763) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #36,763
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Organisme consulaire chargé de développer l’activité économique dans le domaine de l'artisanat.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cma · CMA · French
CMA · rank #36,763 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,763
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cinématique
Nearest frequency peer: cinématique (-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 « CMA »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- chuchote
chuchote
63,241 corpus weight
- ciblent
ciblent
63,240 corpus weight
- cinématique
cinématique
63,239 corpus weight
- CMA
CMA
63,238 corpus weight
- CNAM
CNAM
63,237 corpus weight
- collégien
collégien
63,236 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « CMA » 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 | CMA |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \se.ɛm.a\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #36,763 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « CMA »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for CMA is neighbouring look-alikes ("co", "CV", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \se.ɛm.a\. Frequency #36,763 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Organisme consulaire chargé de développer l’activité économique dans le domaine de l'artisanat.".
No misspelling variants are generated for CMA in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "co", "CV", "Ct", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is CMA, spelled C-M-A.
Definition
- 1Organisme consulaire chargé de développer l’activité économique dans le domaine de l'artisanat.
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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