commemorative
"commemorative" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“commemorative” has 17 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #21,474. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,474
- frequency rank, English
- 43,570
- “C” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Serving to commemorate something.
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 | commemorative |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #21,474 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “commemorative” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around commemorative, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #21,474 among 43,570 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Serving to commemorate something.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for commemorative, with forms such as "ccommemorative", "cmomemorative", and "comemmorative". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "commemorate", "commemoration", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: First attested in 1612; borrowed from New Latin commemorātīvus, from commemorō. By surface analysis, commemorate + -ive, cognate with French commémoratif. The correct English form is commemorative, spelled C-O-M-M-E-M-O-R-A-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Serving to commemorate something.
Etymology
First attested in 1612; borrowed from New Latin commemorātīvus, from commemorō. By surface analysis, commemorate + -ive, cognate with French commémoratif.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccommemorative
- cmomemorative
- comemmorative
- comemorative
- commemmorative
- commemoartive
- commemoraitve
- commemoratiev
- commemorativve
- commemorattive
- commemoratvie
- commemorrative
- commemortaive
- commemroative
- commeomrative
- commmeorative
- ocmmemorative
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of commemorative - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “commemorative”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-O-M-M-E-M-O-R-A-T-I-V-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “commemorate” - see the side-by-side comparison. commemorative vs commemorate
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Same frequency band
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.