commerce

/\kɔ.mɛʁs\/ noun

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.

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

Frequency rank visualization

Position of commerce in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  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.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

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"

ccommerce9cmomerce8comemrce8comerce7commecre8commercce9commerec8commerrce9
Misspelling Variants of "commerce"

Frequency rank: #977 in French

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 covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.