commissure
/ˈkɑm.əˌʃʊɹ/noun
commissure is spelled C-O-M-M-I-S-S-U-R-E. The wrong spelling people search most is commisure: about 90 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 3 in 10 of all searches for the word. Commissure is a noun meaning “The joint between two bones”. The plural of commissure is commissures.
How many letters and syllables are in commissure?
| Letters | 10: C-O-M-M-I-S-S-U-R-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 26 million words; the 155,937th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, commisure, about 90 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell commissure?
Commissure is spelled C-O-M-M-I-S-S-U-R-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 3 in 10 of the searches for commissure 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 commissure?
Commissure appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 155,937th 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 commissure?
- UK /ˈkɒm.ɪs.jʊə/
- US /ˈkɑm.əˌʃʊɹ/
Commissure has 3 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-commissure.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of commissure
- commissures plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does commissure mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The joint between two bones.
- 2
A band of nerve tissue connecting the hemispheres of the brain, the two sides of the spinal cord, etc.
- 3
The line where the upper and lower lips or eyelids meet.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Commissure in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense point where the upper and lower lips or eyelids join:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | commissure |
| Portuguese | comissura |
| Spanish | comisura |
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 commissure come from?
From Latin commissura (“a joining or connecting together”), from commissus (passive perfect participle of committo (“to join, to connect”)) + -ura.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).