commemorative
adjective, noun
commemorative is spelled C-O-M-M-E-M-O-R-A-T-I-V-E. The wrong spelling people search most is commemerative: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 32 of all searches for the word. Commemorative is an adjective meaning “Serving to commemorate something”.
How do you spell commemorative?
Commemorative is spelled C-O-M-M-E-M-O-R-A-T-I-V-E. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 24 of the searches for commemorative in either form.
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.
What does commemorative mean?
adjective
- 1
Serving to commemorate something.
a commemorative plaque
noun
- 1
An object made to commemorate a person, mark an event, etc.
- 2
A postage stamp issued to commemorate, usually a person or event; also commonly applied to thematic (topical) stamp issues.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce commemorative?
- US
Commemorative has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-commemorative.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-commemorative.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of commemorative
- commemoratives plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is commemorative?
Commemorative appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,516th 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 abbreviate commemorative?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of commemorative: commem..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Commemorative in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense serving to commemorate:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | commémoratif |
| Spanish | conmemorativo |
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 commemorative come from?
First attested in 1612; borrowed from New Latin commemorātīvus, from commemorō. By surface analysis, commemorate + -ive, cognate with French commémoratif.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).