commencement
French, noun/kɔ.mɑ̃s.mɑ̃/
commencement is spelled C-O-M-M-E-N-C-E-M-E-N-T (12 letters) and appears 5.9 times per million words in written French, the 9,981st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Commencement is a French masculine noun meaning “beginning, start” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Début (dans le temps)”.
What does commencement mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebeginning, start
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Début (dans le temps). 2. Éléments constitutifs des premiers temps d'un phénomène, d'un territoire. 3. Endroit où débute une zone qui s'étend dans l'espace. 4. Principe, cause première.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of commencement
- commencements plural
- commencemens archaic
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce commencement?
- /kɔ.mɑ̃s.mɑ̃/
- \kɔ.mɑ̃s.mɑ̃\
- [kɔ.mɑ̃s.mɑ̃]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to commencement
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is commencement in French?
commencement appears 5.9 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).