CSM
\se.es.em\
The verdict
“CSM” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #39,735) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #39,735
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Centre de commutation du service des mobiles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-csm · CSM · French
CSM · rank #39,735 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,735
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH croisons
Nearest frequency peer: croisons (-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 « CSM »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- cristallisa…
cristallisation
60,269 corpus weight
- croft
croft
60,268 corpus weight
- croisons
croisons
60,267 corpus weight
- CSM
CSM
60,266 corpus weight
- cts
cts
60,265 corpus weight
- Cérès
Cérès
60,263 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « CSM » 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 | CSM |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \se.es.em\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #39,735 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « CSM »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for CSM is neighbouring look-alikes ("CV", "Ct", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \se.es.em\. Frequency #39,735 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Centre de commutation du service des mobiles.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for CSM, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CV", "Ct", "cy", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is CSM, spelled C-S-M.
Definition
- 1Centre de commutation du service des mobiles.
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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