SCM
The verdict
“SCM” is uncommon French (frequency #85,263 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,263
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Muscle sterno-cléido-mastoïdien : muscle pair du cou, tendu verticalement, entre la clavicule et le sternum en bas et la mastoïde de l’os temporal et l’os occipital en haut.
Corpus desk
Index FR-scm · SCM · French
SCM · rank #85,263 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,263
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH scherzo
Nearest frequency peer: scherzo (-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 « SCM »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- scarpa
scarpa
14,741 corpus weight
- schell
schell
14,740 corpus weight
- scherzo
scherzo
14,739 corpus weight
- SCM
SCM
14,738 corpus weight
- scots
scots
14,737 corpus weight
- scénarii
scénarii
14,735 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « SCM » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | SCM |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #85,263 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « SCM » en français
Rare enough to double-check
SCM is uncommon French at frequency #85,263 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Muscle sterno-cléido-mastoïdien : muscle pair du cou, tendu verticalement, entre la clavicule et le sternum en bas et la mastoïde de l’os temporal et l’os occipital en haut.".
No misspelling variants are generated for SCM in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is SCM, spelled S-C-M.
Definition
- 1Muscle sterno-cléido-mastoïdien : muscle pair du cou, tendu verticalement, entre la clavicule et le sternum en bas et la mastoïde de l’os temporal et l’os occipital en haut.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how SCM appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ceux du 2ᵉ arc sont le plus souvent postéromédiaux par rapport à la glande sous-mandibulaire et antéromédiaux par rapport au SCM.
Le Torticolis : une contracture du SCM !
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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