commissioner
com·mis·sion·er/kəˈmɪ.ʃə.nəɹ/noun
commissioner is spelled C-O-M-M-I-S-S-I-O-N-E-R, 4 syllables: com·mis·sion·er. The wrong spelling people search most is commisioner: about 320 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Commissioner is a noun meaning “One who commissions something”. The plural of commissioner is commissioners.
How many letters and syllables are in commissioner?
| Letters | 12: C-O-M-M-I-S-S-I-O-N-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4: com·mis·sion·er |
| In writing | 27 times per million words; the 3,422nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 3; the most searched, commisioner, about 320 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 commissioner?
Commissioner is spelled C-O-M-M-I-S-S-I-O-N-E-R. 3 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for commissioner 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 commissioner?
Commissioner appears 27 times per million words in written English, the 3,422nd 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 commissioner?
- UK /kəˈmɪ.ʃə.nə/
- US /kəˈmɪ.ʃə.nəɹ/
Commissioner has 4 syllables, split com·mis·sion·er in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-commissioner.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with commissioner?
3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as commissioner from its last stressed vowel (/ɪʃənəɹ/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: recommission.
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 commissioner
- commissioners plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does commissioner mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
One who commissions something.
- 2
One commissioned to perform certain duties.
- 3
A member of a commission.
- 4
An official in charge of a government department, especially a police force.
noun
- 1
Alternative form of European Commissioner.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate commissioner?
Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of commissioner: Comm'r, Comr..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Commissioner in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | commissaire |
| German | Kommissar, Kommissarin, Beauftragter, Beauftragte , Kommissionsmitglied |
| Portuguese | comissionário, comissionado , comissário |
| Spanish | notario, notaria , comisionado |
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.