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commander

com·mand/kəˈmændɚ/noun

commander is spelled C-O-M-M-A-N-D-E-R, 2 syllables: com·mand. The wrong spelling people search most is comander: about 120 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 26 of all searches for the word. Commander is a noun meaning “One who exercises control and direction of a military or naval organization”. The plural of commander is commanders.

How many letters and syllables are in commander?

Letters9: C-O-M-M-A-N-D-E-R
Syllables2: com·mand
In writing32 times per million words; the 2,941st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, comander, about 120 Bing searches a month (all of them)
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How do you spell commander?

Commander is spelled C-O-M-M-A-N-D-E-R. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 26 of the searches for commander in either form.

commanderthe right spelling3,040 searches a month
comandera missing m120 searches a month

Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.

How common is commander?

Commander appears 32 times per million words in written English, the 2,941st most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce commander?

  • US /kəˈmændɚ/
  • UK /kəˈmɑːndə/
  • /kəˈmandə/

Commander has 2 syllables, split com·mand in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-commander.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with commander?

11 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as commander from its last stressed vowel (/ændəɹ/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of commander

  • commanders plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does commander mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    One who exercises control and direction of a military or naval organization.

  2. 2

    A naval officer whose rank is above that of a lieutenant commander and below that of captain.

  3. 3

    One who exercises control and direction over a group of persons.

  4. 4

    A designation or rank in certain non-military organizations such as NASA and various police forces.

  5. 5

    obsoleteThe chief officer of a commandry.

  6. 6

    A heavy beetle or wooden mallet, used in paving, in sail lofts, etc.

  7. 7

    A rank within an honorary order: e.g. Commander of the Legion of Honour.

  8. 8

    Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the Asian genus Moduza.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you abbreviate commander?

Wiktionary records 6 abbreviations of commander: CDR, Cdr, Cmdr, Comdr., cmdr, comdr.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Commander in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchcommandant, commandante (one who exercises control and direction of a…), capitaine de frégate (a naval officer whose rank is above that of a…), commandeur (commander in an honorary order)
GermanBefehlshaber, Kommandant, Kommandeur, Kommandör (one who exercises control and direction of a…)
Portuguesecomandante (one who exercises control and direction of a…), capitão de fragata (a naval officer whose rank is above that of a…)
Spanishcomandante (one who exercises control and direction of a…)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does commander come from?

From Middle English comaundour, commaunder, comaunder, borrowed from Old French comandeor, cumandeur, from comander. By surface analysis, command + -er. See command.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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