commissioned
/kəˈmɪʃənd/
"commissioned" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“commissioned” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #7,545. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,545
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Holding a commission; officially appointed.
Corpus desk
Index EN-commissioned · commissioned · English
commissioned · rank #7,545 · 14 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,545
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH commands
Nearest frequency peer: commands (-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 “commissioned”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
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coincidence
92,459 corpus weight
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comedian
92,458 corpus weight
- commands
commands
92,457 corpus weight
- commissioned
commissioned
92,456 corpus weight
- concentrated
concentrated
92,455 corpus weight
- conscience
conscience
92,454 corpus weight
What this shows “commissioned” 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 | commissioned |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /kəˈmɪʃənd/ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #7,545 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “commissioned”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around commissioned (IPA /kəˈmɪʃənd/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #7,545 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for commissioned, with forms such as "ccommissioned", "cmomissioned", and "comimssioned". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "commissions", "commissioner", "commissioners", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is commissioned, spelled C-O-M-M-I-S-S-I-O-N-E-D.
Definition
- 1Holding a commission; officially appointed.
- 2Specially ordered.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how commissioned appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
And be it further enacted, &c. That any commissioned auctioneer who shall violate any of the provisions contained in this act, shall for any such offence or violation, forfeit the sum of five hundred dollars, to be recovered in the manner prescribed for other forfeitures in the act aforesaid,
Nothing in this Act contained shall subject ot forfeiture any commissioned ship of any foreign state, or give to any British court over or in respect of any ship entitled to recognition as a commissioned ship of any foreign state any jurisdiction which it would not have had if this Act had not passed.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccommissioned
- cmomissioned
- comimssioned
- comissioned
- commisioned
- commisisoned
- commissinoed
- commissioend
- commissionde
- commissionedd
- commissionned
- commissoined
- commsisioned
- ocmmissioned
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of commissioned - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).