commandant

\kɔ.mɑ̃.dɑ̃\

/\kɔ.mɑ̃.dɑ̃\/ adj

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The verdict

“commandant” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,355. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#2,355
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui commande dans une place, ou qui commande des troupes, une troupe, un bâtiment de guerre.

Corpus desk

Index FR-commandant · commandant · French

commandant · rank #2,355 · 14 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,355
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH chansons

Nearest frequency peer: chansons (-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 « commandant »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « commandant » 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).

commandant vs commençant
80% similar
commandant vs commentant
80% similar
commandant vs commandent
90% similar

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

Key facts for commandant
PropertyValue
Headwordcommandant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\kɔ.mɑ̃.dɑ̃\
Letters10
Frequency rank#2,355
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « commandant »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).commandantse place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « chansons » (#2,354), « commercial » (#2,356), « bravo » (#2,353). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « commandant » est au #2,355. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around commandant (IPA \kɔ.mɑ̃.dɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #2,355 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui commande dans une place, ou qui commande des troupes, une troupe, un bâtiment de guerre.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for commandant, with forms such as "ccommandant", "cmomandant", and "comamndant". 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, "commençant", "commentant", "commandent", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is commandant, spelled C-O-M-M-A-N-D-A-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui commande dans une place, ou qui commande des troupes, une troupe, un bâtiment de guerre.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Les officiers commandants.
  2. Capitaine commandant.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccommandant
  • cmomandant
  • comamndant
  • comandant
  • commadnant
  • commanadnt
  • commandannt
  • commandantt
  • commandatn
  • commanddant
  • commandnat
  • commanndant
  • commnadant
  • ocmmandant

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of commandant - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

ccommandant1cmomandant2comamndant2comandant1commadnant2commanadnt2commandannt1commandantt1
Edit distance from "commandant"

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 "commandant"?
"commandant" is spelled C-O-M-M-A-N-D-A-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ.mɑ̃.dɑ̃\.
What does "commandant" mean?
As an adjective, "commandant" means: Qui commande dans une place, ou qui commande des troupes, une troupe, un bâtiment de guerre.
What words are commonly confused with "commandant"?
"commandant" is commonly confused with "commençant", "commentant", "commandent". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "commandant"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "commandant" is \kɔ.mɑ̃.dɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "commandant" come from?
"commandant" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

commercial#2,356convention#2,357couverture#2,359étrangères#2,349

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

récupérer14 variantsprésents14 variantssocialiste14 variantsconstruit14 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list