CMOS
\kmos\
The verdict
“CMOS” is uncommon French (frequency #79,163 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,163
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Technologie de fabrication de composants électroniques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cmos · CMOS · French
CMOS · rank #79,163 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,163
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cluedo
Nearest frequency peer: Cluedo (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « CMOS »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- clairsemés
clairsemés
20,841 corpus weight
- Cluedo
Cluedo
20,839 corpus weight
- CMOS
CMOS
20,838 corpus weight
- coastal
coastal
20,837 corpus weight
- coaster
coaster
20,836 corpus weight
- cochenilles
cochenilles
20,835 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « CMOS » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | CMOS |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kmos\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #79,163 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « CMOS » en français
Rare enough to double-check
CMOS is uncommon French at frequency #79,163 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kmos\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Technologie de fabrication de composants électroniques.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for CMOS, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is CMOS, spelled C-M-O-S.
Definition
- 1Technologie de fabrication de composants 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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