commençais
\kɔ.mɑ̃.sɛ\
The verdict
“commençais” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,907. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,907
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de commencer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-commencais · commençais · French
commençais · rank #17,907 · 13 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,907
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH commandements
Nearest frequency peer: commandements (-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 « commençais »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Cody
Cody
82,098 corpus weight
- commandemen…
commandements
82,095 corpus weight
- commençais
commençais
82,094 corpus weight
- comprendrez
comprendrez
82,093 corpus weight
- comprit
comprit
82,092 corpus weight
- confidences
confidences
82,091 corpus weight
What this shows « commençais » 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 | commençais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ.mɑ̃.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #17,907 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « commençais »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around commençais (IPA \kɔ.mɑ̃.sɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #17,907 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 commençais, with forms such as "ccommençais", "cmomençais", and "comemnçais". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "commences", "commençait", "commençant", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 commençais, spelled C-O-M-M-E-N-Ç-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de commencer.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de commencer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how commençais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je commençais à me désadoucir.
... et moi je commençais à avoir qu’une seule envie, c’était me barrer d’ici sur la pointe des pieds.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccommençais
- cmomençais
- comemnçais
- començais
- commenaçis
- commencais
- commennçais
- commençaiss
- commençasi
- commençias
- commeçnais
- commneçais
- ocmmençais
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of commençais - 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.
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).