commandement
\kɔ.mɑ̃d.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“commandement” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #4,134 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #4,134
- frequency rank, French
- 12
- letters
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ordre que donne celui qui a pouvoir de commander.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | commandement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.mɑ̃d.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #4,134 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “commandement” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for commandement is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.mɑ̃d.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,134 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for commandement, with forms such as "ccommandement", "cmomandement", and "comamndement". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "commandent", "communément", "commencement", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 commandement, spelled C-O-M-M-A-N-D-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Ordre que donne celui qui a pouvoir de commander.
- 2Tout ordre bref qu’on donne à haute voix pour faire exécuter certains mouvements, certaines manœuvres.
- 3L’autorité qui octroie le pouvoir de commander, qui permet de transmettre des ordres à autrui.
- 4L’entité ou la personne détentrice de cette autorité.
- 5Exploit fait par un huissier, en vertu d’un jugement ou d’un titre exécutoire par lequel il commande, au nom de la loi et de la justice, de payer, de vider les lieux, etc.
- 6Loi ou précepte religieux.
- 7Action de commander, manière de commander.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccommandement,cmomandement,comamndement,comandement,commadnement,commanddement,commandeemnt,commandemennt,commandementt,commandemetn,commandemment,commandemnet,commandmeent,commanedment,commanndement,commnadement,ocmmandement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of commandement - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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.
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Using “commandement”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-O-M-M-A-N-D-E-M-E-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kɔ.mɑ̃d.mɑ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “commandent” - see the side-by-side comparison. commandement vs commandent
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.