commerçant

\kɔ.mɛʁ.sɑ̃\

/\kɔ.mɛʁ.sɑ̃\/ adj

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The verdict

“commerçant” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,664. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#10,664
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
8
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui commerce.

Corpus desk

Index FR-commercant · commerçant · French

commerçant · rank #10,664 · 14 variants · 8 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #10,664
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH colonial

Nearest frequency peer: colonial (-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 « commerçant »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « commerçant » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

commerçant vs commettant
80% similar
commerçant vs commerçants
91% similar
commerçant vs commerçante
91% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for commerçant
PropertyValue
Headwordcommerçant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\kɔ.mɛʁ.sɑ̃\
Letters10
Frequency rank#10,664
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « commerçant »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).commerçantse place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « colonial » (#10,663), « communal » (#10,665), « coeurs » (#10,662). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « commerçant » est au #10,664. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around commerçant (IPA \kɔ.mɛʁ.sɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #10,664 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for commerçant, with forms such as "ccommerçant", "cmomerçant", and "comemrçant". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "commettant", "commerçants", "commerçante", 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. The correct French form is commerçant, spelled C-O-M-M-E-R-Ç-A-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui commerce.
  2. 2
    Où il se fait un grand commerce.
  3. 3
    Qui a le sens du commerce, qui est doué pour le commerce.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Les peuples commerçants.
  2. Une nation, une ville, une rue commerçante.

Synonyms

commercialmarchand

This word in other languages

trading(English)comerciante(Español)comerciante(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccommerçant
  • cmomerçant
  • comemrçant
  • comerçant
  • commeraçnt
  • commercant
  • commerrçant
  • commerçannt
  • commerçantt
  • commerçatn
  • commerçnat
  • commeçrant
  • commreçant
  • ocmmerçant

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of commerçant - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

ccommerçant1cmomerçant2comemrçant2comerçant1commeraçnt2commercant1commerrçant1commerçannt1
Edit distance from "commerçant"

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 "commerçant"?
"commerçant" is spelled C-O-M-M-E-R-Ç-A-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ.mɛʁ.sɑ̃\.
What does "commerçant" mean?
As an adjective, "commerçant" means: Qui commerce.
What words are commonly confused with "commerçant"?
"commerçant" is commonly confused with "commettant", "commerçants", "commerçante". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "commerçant"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "commerçant" is \kɔ.mɛʁ.sɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "commerçant" come from?
"commerçant" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

composante#10,667chauffeurs#10,656contourner#10,676célébrités#10,684

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

dimanches14 variantsavantageux14 variantssouhaitant14 variantsmétaphore14 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list