commémorer

\kɔ.me.mɔ.ʁe\

/\kɔ.me.mɔ.ʁe\/ verb

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The verdict

“commémorer” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,807. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#23,807
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rappeler par une cérémonie, une plaque de commémoration ou un autre objet, le souvenir d’une personne ou d’un fait.

Corpus desk

Index FR-commemorer · commémorer · French

commémorer · rank #23,807 · 14 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #23,807
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH commons

Nearest frequency peer: commons (-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 « commémorer »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « commémorer » 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).

commémorer vs commémore
90% similar

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

Key facts for commémorer
PropertyValue
Headwordcommémorer
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\kɔ.me.mɔ.ʁe\
Letters10
Frequency rank#23,807
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « commémorer »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).commémorerse 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 « commons » (#23,806), « concombre » (#23,808), « colossale » (#23,805). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « commémorer » est au #23,807. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around commémorer (IPA \kɔ.me.mɔ.ʁe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #23,807 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Rappeler par une cérémonie, une plaque de commémoration ou un autre objet, le souvenir d’une personne ou d’un fait.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for commémorer, with forms such as "ccommémorer", "cmomémorer", and "commemorer". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "commémore", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is commémorer, spelled C-O-M-M-É-M-O-R-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Rappeler par une cérémonie, une plaque de commémoration ou un autre objet, le souvenir d’une personne ou d’un fait.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Fraîchement réinvesti, Emmanuel Macron a commémoré, dimanche à Paris, la victoire du 8 mai 1945 des Alliés sur l’Allemagne nazie.
  2. Comme chaque année, les batailles de la Chipotte seront commémorées le dernier dimanche d'août.

This word in other languages

commemorate(English)conmemorar(Español)gedenken(Deutsch)comemorar(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccommémorer
  • cmomémorer
  • commemorer
  • commméorer
  • commémmorer
  • commémoerr
  • commémorerr
  • commémorre
  • commémorrer
  • commémroer
  • comméomrer
  • comémmorer
  • comémorer
  • ocmmémorer

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of commémorer - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

ccommémorer1cmomémorer2commemorer1commméorer2commémmorer1commémoerr2commémorerr1commémorre2
Edit distance from "commémorer"

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 "commémorer"?
"commémorer" is spelled C-O-M-M-É-M-O-R-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ.me.mɔ.ʁe\.
What does "commémorer" mean?
As a verb, "commémorer" means: Rappeler par une cérémonie, une plaque de commémoration ou un autre objet, le souvenir d’une personne ou d’un fait.
What words are commonly confused with "commémorer"?
"commémorer" is commonly confused with "commémore". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "commémorer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "commémorer" is \kɔ.me.mɔ.ʁe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "commémorer" come from?
"commémorer" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "commémorer", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

confidence#23,809devenaient#23,832attribuent#23,770définitifs#23,844

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

concombre14 variantscolombienne14 variantsCléopâtre14 variantsbranchés14 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list