CMS
\se.ɛm.ɛs\
The verdict
“CMS” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #33,172) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #33,172
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Composant monté en surface.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cms · CMS · French
CMS · rank #33,172 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,172
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Clairefontaine
Nearest frequency peer: Clairefontaine (-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 « CMS »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Christoph
Christoph
66,832 corpus weight
- châle
châle
66,831 corpus weight
- Clairefonta…
Clairefontaine
66,830 corpus weight
- CMS
CMS
66,829 corpus weight
- cohabitent
cohabitent
66,828 corpus weight
- cohérentes
cohérentes
66,827 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « CMS » 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 | CMS |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \se.ɛm.ɛs\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #33,172 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « CMS »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for CMS is neighbouring look-alikes ("co", "CV", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \se.ɛm.ɛs\. Frequency #33,172 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Composant monté en surface.".
CMS doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is CMS, spelled C-M-S.
Definition
- 1Composant monté en surface.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).