e-commerce
/iˈkɑmɚs/
"e-commerce" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“e-commerce” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Commercial activity conducted via the Internet.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | e-commerce |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /iˈkɑmɚs/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “e-commerce” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
e-commerce is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /iˈkɑmɚs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commercial activity conducted via the Internet.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for e-commerce, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From e- + commerce. The correct English form is e-commerce, spelled E---C-O-M-M-E-R-C-E.
Definition
- 1Commercial activity conducted via the Internet.
Etymology
From e- + commerce.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “e-commerce”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is E---C-O-M-M-E-R-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.