commerce

\kɔ.mɛʁs\

/\kɔ.mɛʁs\/ noun

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The verdict

“commerce” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #977. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#977
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
11
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Activité qui consiste à acheter et vendre des marchandises, des denrées, des valeurs, des services, etc., en vue de réaliser un profit.

Corpus desk

Index FR-commerce · commerce · French

commerce · rank #977 · 10 variants · 11 confusables

  • FREQ-CORE #977
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH commencer

Nearest frequency peer: commencer (-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 « commerce »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « commerce » 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).

commerce vs compère
63% similar
commerce vs commère
75% similar
commerce vs commerces
89% similar

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

Key facts for commerce
PropertyValue
Headwordcommerce
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ.mɛʁs\
Letters8
Frequency rank#977
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs11
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « commerce »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.commercese 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 « commencer » (#976), « complètement » (#978), « bonnes » (#975). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « commerce » est au #977. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around commerce (IPA \kɔ.mɛʁs\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #977 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for commerce, with forms such as "ccommerce", "cmomerce", and "comemrce". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "compère", "commère", "commerces", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is commerce, spelled C-O-M-M-E-R-C-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Activité qui consiste à acheter et vendre des marchandises, des denrées, des valeurs, des services, etc., en vue de réaliser un profit.
  2. 2
    Objet de transaction.
  3. 3
    Pratique ou intrigue qui n’est pas honnête.
  4. 4
    Ensemble des commerçants et négociants.
  5. 5
    Boutique ou magasin du commerçant.
  6. 6
    Liaisons, rapports ou communications que les personnes ont les unes avec les autres, pour quelque objet que ce soit.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Mais il n’importe pas seulement de connaître les finesses du métier, il faut surtout être perspicace pour ce qui est répréhensible, nous voulons parler des moyens frauduleux auxquels se livrent peu ou prou tous ceux faisant commerce de chevaux.
  2. Autrefois, nos écorces se vendaient à vil prix, et nos cuirs n’avaient pas une grande valeur ; mais nos écorces et nos cuirs, une fois bonifiés, la rivière nous permit de construire des moulins à tan, il nous vint des tanneurs dont le commerce s’accrut rapidement.

Synonyms

échange

This word in other languages

commerce(English)comercio(Español)Handel(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccommerce
  • cmomerce
  • comemrce
  • comerce
  • commecre
  • commercce
  • commerec
  • commerrce
  • commrece
  • ocmmerce

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of commerce - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

ccommerce1cmomerce2comemrce2comerce1commecre2commercce1commerec2commerrce1
Edit distance from "commerce"

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 "commerce"?
"commerce" is spelled C-O-M-M-E-R-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ.mɛʁs\.
What does "commerce" mean?
As a noun, "commerce" means: Activité qui consiste à acheter et vendre des marchandises, des denrées, des valeurs, des services, etc., en vue de réaliser un profit.
What words are commonly confused with "commerce"?
"commerce" is commonly confused with "compère", "commère", "commerces". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "commerce"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "commerce" is \kɔ.mɛʁs\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "commerce" come from?
"commerce" 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 "commerce", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

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

physique#985quartier#986vendredi#953principe#1,007

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

montrer10 variantslumière10 variantsendroit10 variantspetites10 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list