CMM
The verdict
“CMM” is uncommon French (frequency #55,150 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,150
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Matériau composite à matrice métallique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cmm · CMM · French
CMM · rank #55,150 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,150
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cligne
Nearest frequency peer: cligne (-2 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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « CMM »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- clamant
clamant
44,855 corpus weight
- Clarendon
Clarendon
44,854 corpus weight
- cligne
cligne
44,853 corpus weight
- CMM
CMM
44,851 corpus weight
- CNOSF
CNOSF
44,849 corpus weight
- coalisés
coalisés
44,848 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « CMM » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | CMM |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #55,150 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « CMM » en français
Rare enough to double-check
CMM is uncommon French at frequency #55,150 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Matériau composite à matrice métallique.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for CMM, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 CMM, spelled C-M-M.
Definition
- 1Matériau composite à matrice métallique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how CMM appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un des grands domaines actuels d'utilisation des CMM est la gestion thermique de systèmes électroniques.
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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