commende

\kɔ.mɑ̃d\

/\kɔ.mɑ̃d\/ noun

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The verdict

“commende” is uncommon French (frequency #78,282 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#78,282
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Administration temporaire des revenus d’un bénéfice donnée autrefois par l’autorité ecclésiastique en attendant la nomination du titulaire.

Corpus desk

Index FR-commende · commende · French

commende · rank #78,282 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #78,282
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH commenceraient

Nearest frequency peer: commenceraient (-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 « commende »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « commende » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for commende
PropertyValue
Headwordcommende
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ.mɑ̃d\
Letters8
Frequency rank#78,282
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « commende » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).commendetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « commenceraient » (#78,281), « conclurent » (#78,284), « cointreau » (#78,279). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « commende » est au #78,282. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

commende is uncommon French at frequency #78,282 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ.mɑ̃d\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

commende doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is commende, spelled C-O-M-M-E-N-D-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Administration temporaire des revenus d’un bénéfice donnée autrefois par l’autorité ecclésiastique en attendant la nomination du titulaire.
  2. 2
    Bénéfice donné par le roi à un séculier pour une abbaye régulière avec permission de disposer des fonds.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how commende appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Les Rosiers, simple écart de la commune de Séchault, canton de Monthois (Ardennes) sont un ancien prieuré en commande de l’ordre de Cîteaux, qui avait lui-même, succédé à une petite abbaye de femmes du même ordre, fondée vers le milieu du XIIIᵉ siècle.
  2. La commende était une dérogation au droit commun.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "commende"?
"commende" is spelled C-O-M-M-E-N-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ.mɑ̃d\.
What does "commende" mean?
As a noun, "commende" means: Administration temporaire des revenus d’un bénéfice donnée autrefois par l’autorité ecclésiastique en attendant la nomination du titulaire.
How do you pronounce "commende"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "commende" is \kɔ.mɑ̃d\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "commende" come from?
"commende" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "commende", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list