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The English entry for commend is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /kəˈmɛnd/. Corpus data places it at rank #20,887 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for commend, with forms such as "ccommend", "cmomend", and "comemnd". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "common", "comment", "commons", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English commenden, from Old French comender, from Latin commendō (“commend, entrust to, commit, recommend”), from com- + mandō (“to commit, intrust, enjoin”), from manus (“hand”) + dō (“to put”). Doublet of command. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is commend, spelled C-O-M-M-E-N-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.