commander
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,923
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
15
similar word pairs
commander is aFrenchverb. It means: Diriger, mener. Pronounced \kɔ.mɑ̃.de\. It ranks #4,923 in French word frequency. Often confused with commando and commencer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | commander |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ.mɑ̃.de\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #4,923 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for commander is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.mɑ̃.de\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,923 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for commander, with forms such as "ccommander", "cmomander", and "comamnder". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "commando", "commencer", "commandes", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is commander, spelled C-O-M-M-A-N-D-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Diriger, mener.
- 2Avoir le commandement en vertu d’une autorité déléguée.
- 3Donner un ordre.
- 4Passer une commande, auprès d’un commerçant, d’un industriel, etc.
- 5Imposer, en parlant de qualités, de sentiments, d’instinct, etc.
- 6Dominer par son élévation.
- 7Entrainer dans un mouvement.
- 8Être en communication l’une avec l’autre, en parlant de pièces d’habitation.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccommander,cmomander,comamnder,comander,commadner,commandder,commanderr,commandre,commanedr,commannder,commnader,ocmmander
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for commander
Misspelling Variants of "commander"
Frequency rank: #4,923 in French
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