cum
\kum\
The verdict
“cum” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,500) as an adverb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,500
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de com (« comme »).
Corpus desk
Index FR-cum · cum · French
cum · rank #19,500 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,500
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH CSP
Nearest frequency peer: CSP (-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 « cum »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- créatifs
créatifs
80,504 corpus weight
- crédibles
crédibles
80,503 corpus weight
- CSP
CSP
80,502 corpus weight
- cum
cum
80,501 corpus weight
- célibat
célibat
80,500 corpus weight
- dansent
dansent
80,499 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « cum » 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 | cum |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \kum\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #19,500 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « cum »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for cum is neighbouring look-alikes ("CV", "cy", …), not just typos; it is anadverb pronounced \kum\. Frequency #19,500 among 8,609 “C” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
cum doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CV", "cy", "CX", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cum, spelled C-U-M.
Definition
- 1Variante de com (« comme »).
- 2Variante de com (« comment »).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cum appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pro Deo amur et pro christian poblo et nostro commun salvament, dist di in avant, in quant Deus savir et podir me dunat, si salvaraeio cist meon fradre Karlo, et in adiudha et in cadhuna cosa, si cum om per dreit son fradra salvar dist, in o quid il mi altresi fazet; et ab Ludher nul plaid numquam prindrai, qui meon vol, cist meon fradre Karle in damno sit.
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).