QCM
\ky se ɛm\
The verdict
“QCM” sits in 15 confusable pairs (corpus #32,141) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #32,141
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Questionnaire à choix multiple.
Corpus desk
Index FR-qcm · QCM · French
QCM · rank #32,141 · 0 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,141
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH pérenniser
Nearest frequency peer: pérenniser (-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 « QCM »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- pénalise
pénalise
67,863 corpus weight
- péniche
péniche
67,862 corpus weight
- pérenniser
pérenniser
67,861 corpus weight
- QCM
QCM
67,860 corpus weight
- quinoa
quinoa
67,859 corpus weight
- ralentie
ralentie
67,857 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « QCM » 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 | QCM |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ky se ɛm\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #32,141 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « QCM »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for QCM is neighbouring look-alikes ("QI", "QG", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ky se ɛm\. Frequency #32,141 among 352 “Q” headwords. Gloss: "Questionnaire à choix multiple.".
No misspelling variants are generated for QCM in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "QI", "QG", "qd", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is QCM, spelled Q-C-M.
Definition
- 1Questionnaire à choix multiple.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how QCM appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si vous avez un doute sur une question, il vaut mieux ne pas répondre car dans ce QCM les erreurs enlèvent des points.
À l’époque, la formation dirigée par Pierre Laurent avait lancé un QCM intitulé « Que demande le peuple ? » avec l’objectif de le faire remplir par 500 000 personnes pour en faire le « socle programmatique » d’une candidature unique de la gauche non gouvernementale.
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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