commish
/kəˈmɪʃ/
"commish" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“commish” is uncommon English (frequency #74,840 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,840
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A commissioner.
Corpus desk
Index EN-commish · commish · English
commish · rank #74,840 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,840
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Colne
Nearest frequency peer: Colne (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “commish”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- ciliary
ciliary
25,168 corpus weight
- cinematogra…
cinematographic
25,167 corpus weight
- Clemenceau
Clemenceau
25,166 corpus weight
- cockiness
cockiness
25,164 corpus weight
- Colne
Colne
25,162 corpus weight
- commish
commish
25,161 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “commish” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | commish |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kəˈmɪʃ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #74,840 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “commish” in English
Rare enough to double-check
commish is uncommon English at frequency #74,840 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kəˈmɪʃ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for commish, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Shortening. The correct English form is commish, spelled C-O-M-M-I-S-H.
Definition
- 1A commissioner.
- 2A commission.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how commish appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Library commish Mary Dempsey presides over the talk, and there's an accompanying video, Staking Our Claim in Cyberspace.
From now on it's horsebuyin' on commish, an' you an' me on the road till we find that valley of the moon."
Etymology
Shortening.
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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