# commonwealth

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈkɑmənˌwɛlθ/ · frequency rank #4,007

## Definitions
1. The well-being of a community.
2. The entirety of a (secular) society, a polity, a state.
3. Republic. Often capitalized, as Commonwealth.

## Etymology
From common (“public”) + wealth (“well-being”).
From c. 1450 as common wele (commonweal). In the form common-wealth (common welthe) from c. 1520, used by Tyndale in the sense "secular society" in particular, for which other authors preferred publike weal.
Also from the 1520s treated as a synonym or loan-translation of res publica (republic) (Rollison 2017:67f).

## Common misspellings (17)
`ccommonwealth`, `cmomonwealth`, `commnowealth`, `commonewalth`, `commonnwealth`, `commonwaelth`, `commonwealht`, `commonweallth`, `commonwealthh`, `commonwealtth`, `commonweatlh`, `commonwelath`, `commonwwealth`, `commownealth`, `comomnwealth`, `comonwealth`, `ocmmonwealth`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/commonwealth