commencée
\kɔ.mɑ̃.se\
The verdict
“commencée” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,332. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,332
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé féminin singulier de commencer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-commencee · commencée · French
commencée · rank #15,332 · 12 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,332
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH complétée
Nearest frequency peer: complétée (+2 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 « commencée »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- chevilles
chevilles
84,674 corpus weight
- chorale
chorale
84,673 corpus weight
- clowns
clowns
84,672 corpus weight
- commencée
commencée
84,669 corpus weight
- complétée
complétée
84,667 corpus weight
- conceptions
conceptions
84,665 corpus weight
What this shows « commencée » 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 | commencée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ.mɑ̃.se\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #15,332 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « commencée »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around commencée (IPA \kɔ.mɑ̃.se\), averb. Corpus frequency is #15,332 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe passé féminin singulier de commencer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for commencée, with forms such as "ccommencée", "cmomencée", and "comemncée". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "commerce", "commente", "commencer", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is commencée, spelled C-O-M-M-E-N-C-É-E.
Definition
- 1Participe passé féminin singulier de commencer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how commencée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une anecdote locale plutôt symbolique raconte que le coq du clocher de l’église de Saint-Vincent, dont la construction fut commencée en 1934, aurait disparu dans de bien mystérieuses circonstances, qu’on attribue à l’archevêque O’Leary.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccommencée
- cmomencée
- comemncée
- comencée
- commecnée
- commenccée
- commencee
- commenceé
- commenncée
- commenéce
- commnecée
- ocmmencée
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of commencée - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "commencée", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).