commerce
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#977
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
commerce is aFrenchnoun. It means: Activité qui consiste à acheter et vendre des marchandises, des denrées, des valeurs, des services, etc., en vue de réaliser un profit. Pronounced \kɔ.mɛʁs\. It ranks #977 in French word frequency. Often confused with compère and commère.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | commerce |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.mɛʁs\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #977 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for commerce is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.mɛʁs\. Corpus data places it at rank #977 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for commerce, with forms such as "ccommerce", "cmomerce", and "comemrce". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "compère", "commère", "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 commerce, spelled C-O-M-M-E-R-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Activité qui consiste à acheter et vendre des marchandises, des denrées, des valeurs, des services, etc., en vue de réaliser un profit.
- 2Objet de transaction.
- 3Pratique ou intrigue qui n’est pas honnête.
- 4Ensemble des commerçants et négociants.
- 5Boutique ou magasin du commerçant.
- 6Liaisons, rapports ou communications que les personnes ont les unes avec les autres, pour quelque objet que ce soit.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccommerce,cmomerce,comemrce,comerce,commecre,commercce,commerec,commerrce,commrece,ocmmerce
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for commerce
Misspelling Variants of "commerce"
Frequency rank: #977 in French
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