commença
\kɔ.mɑ̃.sa\
The verdict
“commença” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,945. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,945
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de commencer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-commenca · commença · French
commença · rank #7,945 · 10 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,945
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH come
Nearest frequency peer: come (-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 « commença »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- claque
claque
92,059 corpus weight
- clark
clark
92,058 corpus weight
- come
come
92,057 corpus weight
- commença
commença
92,056 corpus weight
- configurati…
configuration
92,055 corpus weight
- cuire
cuire
92,054 corpus weight
What this shows « commença » 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 | commença |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ.mɑ̃.sa\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,945 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « commença »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around commença (IPA \kɔ.mɑ̃.sa\), averb. Corpus frequency is #7,945 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de commencer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for commença, with forms such as "ccommença", "cmomença", and "comemnça". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "comment", "commencé", "commerce", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is commença, spelled C-O-M-M-E-N-Ç-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de commencer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how commença appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le feu des fusils Mauser commença ; ce fut un vacarme épouvantable dans lequel on percevait le ronflement des obus à la lydite, le crépitement des fusils Metford, les éclats des mitrailleuses boers et les sifflements des Mauser.
François Bergeron commença par dévisager Edvard Kolding avec une insistance extraordinaire.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccommença
- cmomença
- comemnça
- comença
- commenaç
- commenca
- commennça
- commeçna
- commneça
- ocmmença
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of commença - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).