commande
French, noun
commande is spelled C-O-M-M-A-N-D-E (8 letters) and appears 38 times per million words in written French, the 2,172nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Commande is a French feminine noun meaning “order (request for some product or service)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of commander. With an accent, commandé is a different word: “past participle of commander”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Corde servant à fixer un filet, un balai, une manœuvre, etc”.
What does commande mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineorder (request for some product or service)
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of commander
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Ordre donné à un fabricant, à un ouvrier, à un artiste de faire un certain ouvrage, ou à un marchand de faire une certaine livraison. 2. Corde servant à fixer un filet, un balai, une manœuvre, etc. 3. Mécanisme d’entraînement. 4. Mot ou phrase à la syntaxe bien particulière entré dans un éditeur de ligne de commande et donnant l’ordre d’une action à exécuter un ordinateur.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of commande
- commandes plural
- commandée feminine
- commandés masculine plural
- commandées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to commande
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is commande in French?
commande appears 38 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).