commando
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,637
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
commando is aFrenchnoun. It means: Unité spéciale entraînée pour exécuter des missions dangereuses sur des objectifs déterminés. Pronounced \kɔ.mɑ̃.do\. Often confused with commandos and command.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | commando |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.mɑ̃.do\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #14,637 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for commando is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.mɑ̃.do\. Corpus data places it at rank #14,637 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for commando, with forms such as "ccommando", "cmomando", and "comamndo". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "commandos", "command", "commande", 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 commando, spelled C-O-M-M-A-N-D-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Unité spéciale entraînée pour exécuter des missions dangereuses sur des objectifs déterminés.
- 2Groupe de combat employé pour les opérations rapides, isolées ou spéciales.
- 3Soldat de ces forces spéciales.
- 4Groupe militant menant une action musclée.
- 5Attaque rapide et coordonnée.
- 6Groupe de combattants volontaires durant les guerres des Boers
- 7Compagnie de travail formée de prisonniers de guerre au sein d’un stalag pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccommando,cmomando,comamndo,comando,commadno,commanddo,commanndo,commanod,commnado,ocmmando
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for commando
Misspelling Variants of "commando"
Frequency rank: #14,637 in French
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