STM
The verdict
“STM” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #23,698) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #23,698
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Microscopie à effet tunnel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-stm · STM · French
STM · rank #23,698 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,698
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH statistiqueme…
Nearest frequency peer: statistiquement (-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 « STM »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- squad
squad
76,306 corpus weight
- squat
squat
76,305 corpus weight
- statistique…
statistiquement
76,304 corpus weight
- STM
STM
76,303 corpus weight
- substrat
substrat
76,302 corpus weight
- successions
successions
76,301 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « STM » 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 | STM |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #23,698 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « STM »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for STM is neighbouring look-alikes ("su", "sy", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #23,698 among 6,032 “S” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Zero misspellings are on record for STM in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "su", "sy", "SV", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is STM, spelled S-T-M.
Definition
- 1Microscopie à effet tunnel.
- 2Société de transport de Montréal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how STM appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"L’obtention du statut de constable spécial vise à donner les outils nécessaires aux inspecteurs pour augmenter leur participation à l’amélioration de l’expérience client", explique Marie-Claude Léonard, directrice exécutive du réseau du métro de la STM.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "STM", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).