commencer
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#976
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
19
similar word pairs
commencer is aFrenchverb. It means: Engager une action, entreprendre une tâche, donner à une chose un commencement d’existence. Pronounced \kɔ.mɑ̃.se\. It ranks #976 in French word frequency. Often confused with commerce and commente.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | commencer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ.mɑ̃.se\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #976 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for commencer is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.mɑ̃.se\. Corpus data places it at rank #976 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for commencer, with forms such as "ccommencer", "cmomencer", and "comemncer". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "commerce", "commente", "commerces", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is commencer, spelled C-O-M-M-E-N-C-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Engager une action, entreprendre une tâche, donner à une chose un commencement d’existence.
- 2Entrer dans un nouvel état, dans une nouvelle situation.
- 3Être au début d'une période de temps.
- 4Être encore dans les premiers temps d'une période déterminée.
- 5Faire une première chose au début d'une période donnée.
- 6Donner, à quelqu’un, les premières leçons, les premiers commencements d'un art, d'une science.
- 7Donner les premières leçons de manège à un cheval.
- 8Entrer dans son commencement.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccommencer,cmomencer,comemncer,comencer,commecner,commenccer,commencerr,commencre,commenecr,commenncer,commnecer,ocmmencer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for commencer
Misspelling Variants of "commencer"
Frequency rank: #976 in French
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Other entries that begin with the letter C in our French index: