commence
[kəˈmen(t)s]
The verdict
“commence” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - anfangen, beginnen
Corpus desk
Index DE-commence · commence · German
commence · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | commence |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kəˈmen(t)s] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „commence“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
commence is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [kəˈmen(t)s]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "anfangen, beginnen".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for commence, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 German form is commence, spelled C-O-M-M-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1anfangen, beginnen
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how commence appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"The mackerel fishery commences at the latter end of February, and lasts until the end of June, but it is at its best in the months of April and May."
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.