commences
\kɔ.mɑ̃s\
The verdict
“commences” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,800. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,800
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de commencer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-commences · commences · French
commences · rank #9,800 · 12 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,800
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH communautaires
Nearest frequency peer: communautaires (+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 « commences »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- clarté
clarté
90,205 corpus weight
- collaborate…
collaborateur
90,203 corpus weight
- commences
commences
90,201 corpus weight
- communautai…
communautaires
90,200 corpus weight
- confrères
confrères
90,198 corpus weight
- connards
connards
90,197 corpus weight
What this shows « commences » 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 | commences |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ.mɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #9,800 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « commences »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around commences (IPA \kɔ.mɑ̃s\), averb. Corpus frequency is #9,800 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for commences, with forms such as "ccommences", "cmomences", and "comemnces". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "commerce", "communes", "commente", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is commences, spelled C-O-M-M-E-N-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de commencer.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de commencer.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccommences
- cmomences
- comemnces
- comences
- commecnes
- commencces
- commencess
- commencse
- commenecs
- commennces
- commneces
- ocmmences
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of commences - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "commences", 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).