commencements
\kɔ.mɑ̃s.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“commencements” is uncommon French (frequency #73,843 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,843
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Premières leçons, premières instructions dans un art ou dans une science.
Corpus desk
Index FR-commencements · commencements · French
commencements · rank #73,843 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,843
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH commémorent
Nearest frequency peer: commémorent (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « commencements »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cochenille
cochenille
26,162 corpus weight
- cogite
cogite
26,161 corpus weight
- commencemen…
commencements
26,158 corpus weight
- commémorent
commémorent
26,157 corpus weight
- comparais
comparais
26,156 corpus weight
- comprirent
comprirent
26,155 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « commencements » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | commencements |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.mɑ̃s.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #73,843 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « commencements » en français
Rare enough to double-check
commencements is uncommon French at frequency #73,843 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ.mɑ̃s.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for commencements, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is commencements, spelled C-O-M-M-E-N-C-E-M-E-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Premières leçons, premières instructions dans un art ou dans une science.
- 2Premiers développements d’un état ou débuts d’un homme dans une carrière, un emploi, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how commencements appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il a de bons commencements dans les mathématiques, dans la peinture, etc. - Les commencements sont toujours difficiles.
Ce signe de vie, dans les commencements presque imperceptible, ne se donna pas par Monsieur (le duc d’Orléans).
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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