commercial
/kəˈmɝ.ʃəl/noun, adjective
commercial is spelled C-O-M-M-E-R-C-I-A-L. The wrong spelling people search most is commerical: about 670 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 14 of all searches for the word. Commercial is a noun meaning “An advertisement in a common media format, usually radio or television”. The plural of commercial is commercials.
How many letters and syllables are in commercial?
| Letters | 10: C-O-M-M-E-R-C-I-A-L |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 83 times per million words; the 1,272nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, commerical, about 670 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell commercial?
Commercial is spelled C-O-M-M-E-R-C-I-A-L. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 12 of the searches for commercial 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.
How common is commercial?
Commercial appears 83 times per million words in written English, the 1,272nd 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 pronounce commercial?
- UK /kəˈmɜː.ʃəl/
- US /kəˈmɝ.ʃəl/
- Australia /kəˈmɜː.ʃəl/
Commercial has 3 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: En-us-commercial.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with commercial?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as commercial from its last stressed vowel (/ɜɹʃəl/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of commercial
- commercials plural
- more commercial comparative
- most commercial superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does commercial mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An advertisement in a common media format, usually radio or television.
She was in a commercial for breakfast cereal.
- 2
A commercial trader, as opposed to an individual speculator.
- 3
obsoleteA commercial traveller.
- 4
slangA male prostitute.
adjective
- 1
Of or pertaining to commerce.
- 2
Designating an airport that serves passenger and/or cargo flights.
- 3
Designating such an airplane flight.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate commercial?
Wiktionary records 3 abbreviations of commercial: Com., com, coml.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Commercial in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | publicité , commercial |
| German | Werbung, Werbespot , kommerziell, geschäftlich, gewerblich, Handels- |
| Portuguese | anúncio, comercial, propaganda |
| Spanish | anuncio, comercial, spot, publicidad |
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 commercial come from?
From French commercial (“of, or pertaining to commerce”), from Late Latin commercialis, from Latin commercium.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).