commandait

\kɔ.mɑ̃.dɛ\

/\kɔ.mɑ̃.dɛ\/ verb

The verdict

“commandait” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,738. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#27,738
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de commander.

Corpus desk

Index FR-commandait · commandait · French

commandait · rank #27,738 · 13 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #27,738
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH colères

Nearest frequency peer: colères (-1 rank slots)

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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « commandait »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « commandait » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

commandait vs commandant
90% similar
commandait vs commençait
80% similar
commandait vs commandent
80% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for commandait
PropertyValue
Headwordcommandait
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\kɔ.mɑ̃.dɛ\
Letters10
Frequency rank#27,738
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « commandait »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.commandaitse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « colères » (#27,737), « commentant » (#27,739), « colocataire » (#27,736). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « commandait » est au #27,738. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around commandait (IPA \kɔ.mɑ̃.dɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #27,738 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de commander.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for commandait, with forms such as "ccommandait", "cmomandait", and "comamndait". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "commandant", "commençait", "commandent", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is commandait, spelled C-O-M-M-A-N-D-A-I-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de commander.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how commandait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. M. de La Motte-Guerin, qui commandait dans ces îles, du temps que j’y étais détenu, m’assura que ce prisonnier était le duc de Beaufort, qu’on disait avoir été tué au siège de Candie, et dont on ne put trouver le corps suivant toutes les relations de ce temps-là.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccommandait
  • cmomandait
  • comamndait
  • comandait
  • commadnait
  • commanadit
  • commandaitt
  • commandati
  • commanddait
  • commandiat
  • commanndait
  • commnadait
  • ocmmandait

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of commandait - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

ccommandait1cmomandait2comamndait2comandait1commadnait2commanadit2commandaitt1commandati2
Edit distance from "commandait"

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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "commandait"?
"commandait" is spelled C-O-M-M-A-N-D-A-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ.mɑ̃.dɛ\.
What does "commandait" mean?
As a verb, "commandait" means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de commander.
What words are commonly confused with "commandait"?
"commandait" is commonly confused with "commandant", "commençait", "commandent". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "commandait"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "commandait" is \kɔ.mɑ̃.dɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "commandait" come from?
"commandait" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "commandait", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list