CMU
\se ɛ.m‿y\
The verdict
“CMU” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #34,937) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #34,937
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Couverture médicale universelle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cmu · CMU · French
CMU · rank #34,937 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,937
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH circulations
Nearest frequency peer: circulations (-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 « CMU »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- chorégraphi…
chorégraphies
65,067 corpus weight
- chronomètre
chronomètre
65,066 corpus weight
- circulations
circulations
65,065 corpus weight
- CMU
CMU
65,064 corpus weight
- CNES
CNES
65,063 corpus weight
- Cochin
Cochin
65,062 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « CMU » 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 | CMU |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \se ɛ.m‿y\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #34,937 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « CMU »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for CMU is neighbouring look-alikes ("co", "CV", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \se ɛ.m‿y\. Frequency #34,937 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Couverture médicale universelle.".
CMU has no tracked misspelling variants, 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.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is CMU, spelled C-M-U.
Definition
- 1Couverture médicale universelle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how CMU appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lucile parlait parfois de son travail, évoquait les espoirs, les déceptions, les démarches administratives nécessaires à l’obtention d’une carte de séjour, d’une CMU, les appels répétés à l’infini pour trouver un centre d’accueil, un centre de soins de suite, la détresse à laquelle elle se heurtait de plein fouet, la mort soudaine ou attendue d’un homme o…
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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