commandery
/kəˈmænd(ə)ɹi/
"commandery" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“commandery” is uncommon English (frequency #80,332 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,332
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A territory under the control of a commander
Corpus desk
Index EN-commandery · commandery · English
commandery · rank #80,332 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,332
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH communalism
Nearest frequency peer: communalism (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “commandery”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- codependent
codependent
19,672 corpus weight
- cohomology
cohomology
19,671 corpus weight
- commandery
commandery
19,669 corpus weight
- communalism
communalism
19,668 corpus weight
- commutator
commutator
19,666 corpus weight
- compactly
compactly
19,665 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “commandery” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | commandery |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kəˈmænd(ə)ɹi/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #80,332 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “commandery” in English
Rare enough to double-check
commandery is uncommon English at frequency #80,332 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kəˈmænd(ə)ɹi/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for commandery, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French commanderie, from Late Latin commendaria, from Latin commendare. In the Chinese administrative division sense, used as a translation of 府 (fǔ) and 郡 (jùn). The correct English form is commandery, spelled C-O-M-M-A-N-D-E-R-Y.
Definition
- 1A territory under the control of a commander
- 2A territory under the control of a commander
- 3A chapter of a secret order, especially the Knights Templar (order affiliated with Freemasonry).
Etymology
From French commanderie, from Late Latin commendaria, from Latin commendare. In the Chinese administrative division sense, used as a translation of 府 (fǔ) and 郡 (jùn).
Synonyms
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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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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