commenced
/kəˈmɛnst/
"commenced" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“commenced” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #9,861. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,861
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of commence
Corpus desk
Index EN-commenced · commenced · English
commenced · rank #9,861 · 12 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,861
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH collaborative
Nearest frequency peer: collaborative (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “commenced”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Chapman
Chapman
90,143 corpus weight
- chopped
chopped
90,142 corpus weight
- collaborati…
collaborative
90,141 corpus weight
- commenced
commenced
90,140 corpus weight
- compensate
compensate
90,139 corpus weight
- compromised
compromised
90,138 corpus weight
What this shows “commenced” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | commenced |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /kəˈmɛnst/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #9,861 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “commenced”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around commenced (IPA /kəˈmɛnst/), averb. Corpus frequency is #9,861 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "simple past and past participle of commence".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for commenced, with forms such as "ccommenced", "cmomenced", and "comemnced". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "commend", "commerce", "commented", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is commenced, spelled C-O-M-M-E-N-C-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of commence
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccommenced
- cmomenced
- comemnced
- comenced
- commecned
- commencced
- commencde
- commencedd
- commenecd
- commennced
- commneced
- ocmmenced
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of commenced - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).