IUFM
\i.y.ɛ.f‿ɛm\
The verdict
“IUFM” is uncommon French (frequency #62,380 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,380
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Institut chargé de la formation des enseignants en France entre 1990 et 2013. Les IUFM ont été remplacés depuis par les ÉSPÉ, puis en 2019 par les INSPÉ.
Corpus desk
Index FR-iufm · IUFM · French
IUFM · rank #62,380 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,380
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH irvin
Nearest frequency peer: irvin (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « IUFM »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- interrégion…
interrégional
37,625 corpus weight
- intrusive
intrusive
37,624 corpus weight
- irritante
irritante
37,623 corpus weight
- irvin
irvin
37,622 corpus weight
- IUFM
IUFM
37,621 corpus weight
- Ivana
Ivana
37,620 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « IUFM » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | IUFM |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.y.ɛ.f‿ɛm\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #62,380 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « IUFM » en français
Rare enough to double-check
IUFM is uncommon French at frequency #62,380 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \i.y.ɛ.f‿ɛm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Institut chargé de la formation des enseignants en France entre 1990 et 2013. Les IUFM ont été remplacés depuis par les ÉSPÉ, puis en 2019 par les INSPÉ.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for IUFM, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is IUFM, spelled I-U-F-M.
Definition
- 1Institut chargé de la formation des enseignants en France entre 1990 et 2013. Les IUFM ont été remplacés depuis par les ÉSPÉ, puis en 2019 par les INSPÉ.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how IUFM appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La création des IUFM prend sa source dans une double et contradictoire exigence. D'une part il s'agissait de s'inspirer des acquis pédagogiques élaborés pour l'essentiel dans l'école primaire. Mais d'autre part, on voulait renforcer les disciplines et “universitariser” la formation des enseignants du primaire. C'est ce mariage de la carpe et du lapin qui…
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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