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commensurate

UK /kəˈmens(ə)rət/adjective

commensurate is spelled C-O-M-M-E-N-S-U-R-A-T-E. The wrong spelling people search most is commeasurate: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 213 of all searches for the word. Commensurate is an adjective meaning “Of a proportionate or similar measurable standard”.

How do you spell commensurate?

Commensurate is spelled C-O-M-M-E-N-S-U-R-A-T-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 211 of the searches for commensurate in either form.

commensuratethe right spelling4,200 searches a month
commeasuratea in place of n20 searches a month

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 commensurate mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Of a proportionate or similar measurable standard.

    commensurate punishments

  2. 2

    Describing a crystal in which every atom or molecule is placed in the same relative position

  3. 3

    Describing two numbers within the same Archimedean class, so that neither is infinitely larger than the other.

verb

  1. 1

    obsoleteTo reduce to a common measure.

  2. 2

    obsoleteTo proportionate; to adjust.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce commensurate?

  • UK /kəˈmens(ə)rət/
  • UK /kəˈmenʃ(ə)rət/
  • UK /kəˈmensjərət/

Commensurate 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-commensurate.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of commensurate

  • more commensurate comparative
  • most commensurate superlative
  • commensurates present, singular, he/she/it
  • commensurating participle, present
  • commensurated participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is commensurate?

Commensurate appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 35,748th 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).

Commensurate in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense proportionate; of a similar measurable standard:

LanguageWords
Frenchcommensurable
Germanausgewogen, angemessen, entsprechend, im Einklang stehend
Spanishconmensurado, conmensurativo

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 commensurate come from?

First attested in 1641; borrowed from Late Latin commēnsūrātus, from com- (“together, with”) + mēnsūrātus, perfect passive participle of mēnsūrō (“to measure, to estimate”), (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from Latin mēnsūra (“measure”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).