commandes

\kɔ.mɑ̃d\

/\kɔ.mɑ̃d\/ noun

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The verdict

“commandes” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,523. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#3,523
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
16
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de commande.

Corpus desk

Index FR-commandes · commandes · French

commandes · rank #3,523 · 12 variants · 16 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #3,523
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH chevalier

Nearest frequency peer: chevalier (-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 « commandes »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « commandes » 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).

commandes vs communes
78% similar
commandes vs commando
78% similar
commandes vs commences
78% similar

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

Key facts for commandes
PropertyValue
Headwordcommandes
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ.mɑ̃d\
Letters9
Frequency rank#3,523
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs16
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « commandes »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).commandesse 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 « chevalier » (#3,522), « communiqué » (#3,524), « chers » (#3,521). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « commandes » est au #3,523. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around commandes (IPA \kɔ.mɑ̃d\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,523 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for commandes, with forms such as "ccommandes", "cmomandes", and "comamndes". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "communes", "commando", "commences", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is commandes, spelled C-O-M-M-A-N-D-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de commande.
  2. 2
    Courses, épicerie.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Le principal rôle de la plate-forme est de collecter les produits des producteurs, de les stocker, parfois de les « décoliser » (pour les mettre dans des colis plus petits) et de préparer les produits à livrer en fonction des commandes clients.
  2. Faire ses commandes.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccommandes
  • cmomandes
  • comamndes
  • comandes
  • commadnes
  • commanddes
  • commandess
  • commandse
  • commaneds
  • commanndes
  • commnades
  • ocmmandes

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

ccommandes1cmomandes2comamndes2comandes1commadnes2commanddes1commandess1commandse2
Edit distance from "commandes"

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 "commandes"?
"commandes" is spelled C-O-M-M-A-N-D-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ.mɑ̃d\.
What does "commandes" mean?
As a noun, "commandes" means: Pluriel de commande.
What words are commonly confused with "commandes"?
"commandes" is commonly confused with "communes", "commando", "commences". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "commandes"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "commandes" is \kɔ.mɑ̃d\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "commandes" come from?
"commandes" 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 "commandes", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

chevalier#3,522constater#3,525continent#3,526capacités#3,518

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

chanteur12 variantsdestinée12 variantsmodernes12 variantsreconnaît12 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list