commerce de détail
\kɔ.mɛʁs də de.taj\
The verdict
“commerce de détail” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Activité du détaillant, consistant à vendre des marchandises à l’unité ou par petite quantité à un client dans un magasin, une boutique, au marché ou par correspondance à l’aide d'un catalogue ou d...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | commerce de détail |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.mɛʁs də de.taj\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “commerce de détail” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for commerce de détail is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.mɛʁs də de.taj\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Activité du détaillant, consistant à vendre des marchandises à l’unité ou par petite quantité à un client dans un magasin, une boutique, au marché ou par correspondance à l’aide d'un catalogue ou d...".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for commerce de détail, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is commerce de détail, spelled C-O-M-M-E-R-C-E- -D-E- -D-É-T-A-I-L.
Definition
- 1Activité du détaillant, consistant à vendre des marchandises à l’unité ou par petite quantité à un client dans un magasin, une boutique, au marché ou par correspondance à l’aide d'un catalogue ou d’un site Internet.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-O-M-M-E-R-C-E- -D-E- -D-É-T-A-I-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kɔ.mɛʁs də de.taj\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.