commandeur
\kɔ.mɑ̃.dœʁ\
The verdict
“commandeur” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,439. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,439
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui commande.
Corpus desk
Index FR-commandeur · commandeur · French
commandeur · rank #18,439 · 13 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,439
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Comic
Nearest frequency peer: Comic (-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 « commandeur »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- colombes
colombes
81,565 corpus weight
- colorée
colorée
81,564 corpus weight
- Comic
Comic
81,563 corpus weight
- commandeur
commandeur
81,562 corpus weight
- comprenons
comprenons
81,561 corpus weight
- comtés
comtés
81,560 corpus weight
What this shows « commandeur » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | commandeur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ.mɑ̃.dœʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #18,439 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « commandeur »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around commandeur (IPA \kɔ.mɑ̃.dœʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #18,439 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for commandeur, with forms such as "ccommandeur", "cmomandeur", and "comamndeur". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "commandez", "commande", "commandes", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is commandeur, spelled C-O-M-M-A-N-D-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Qui commande.
- 2Qui passe commande.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how commandeur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des bonnes sœurs blanches glissent silencieuses sur le carrelage brillant; leur visage de plâtre semble déjà statufié dans une sainteté aux lèvres minces à la Pie XII, une béatitude revêche, commandeuse, efficace.
Pour l'aristocrate de papier et la parvenue d'épicerie. Hier crève-misère, aujourd'hui commandeuse de robes.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccommandeur
- cmomandeur
- comamndeur
- comandeur
- commadneur
- commanddeur
- commanderu
- commandeurr
- commanduer
- commanedur
- commanndeur
- commnadeur
- ocmmandeur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of commandeur - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).