NTM
\ɛn.te.ɛm\
The verdict
“NTM” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #41,425) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #41,425
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nique ta mère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ntm · NTM · French
NTM · rank #41,425 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,425
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nocive
Nearest frequency peer: nocive (-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 « NTM »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- needs
needs
58,578 corpus weight
- nocive
nocive
58,577 corpus weight
- NTM
NTM
58,576 corpus weight
- négativité
négativité
58,575 corpus weight
- obliques
obliques
58,574 corpus weight
- octavia
octavia
58,573 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « NTM » 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 | NTM |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \ɛn.te.ɛm\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #41,425 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « NTM »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for NTM is neighbouring look-alikes ("nu", "ny", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced \ɛn.te.ɛm\. Frequency #41,425 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Gloss: "Nique ta mère.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for NTM, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "nu", "ny", "nul", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 NTM, spelled N-T-M.
Definition
- 1Nique ta mère.
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).