fm
\ˈfæð.əm\
The verdict
“fm” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,661) as a symbol. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,661
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Symbole du fathom (la brasse en français), unité de mesure de profondeur hydrographique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fm · fm · French
fm · rank #9,661 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,661
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fermées
Nearest frequency peer: fermées (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “fm”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Fabrice
Fabrice
90,344 corpus weight
- fabuleux
fabuleux
90,343 corpus weight
- fermement
fermement
90,342 corpus weight
- fermées
fermées
90,341 corpus weight
- fm
fm
90,340 corpus weight
- frappes
frappes
90,338 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “fm” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | fm |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Symbol |
| IPA | \ˈfæð.əm\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #9,661 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “fm” se place dans la fréquence du français
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for fm is neighbouring look-alikes ("FN", "fo", …), not just typos; it is asymbol pronounced \ˈfæð.əm\. Frequency #9,661 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Gloss: "Symbole du fathom (la brasse en français), unité de mesure de profondeur hydrographique.".
fm doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "FN", "fo", "ft", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is fm, spelled F-M.
Definition
- 1Symbole du fathom (la brasse en français), unité de mesure de profondeur hydrographique.
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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- "fm" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "FN". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #9,661 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.