commercial

\kɔ.mɛʁ.sjal\

/\kɔ.mɛʁ.sjal\/ adj

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The verdict

“commercial” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,356. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#2,356
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a rapport au commerce, à la vente comme à l’achat.

Corpus desk

Index FR-commercial · commercial · French

commercial · rank #2,356 · 13 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,356
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH commandant

Nearest frequency peer: commandant (-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 « commercial »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « commercial » 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).

commercial vs commerciale
91% similar
commercial vs commerciaux
82% similar
commercial vs commerciales
83% similar

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

Key facts for commercial
PropertyValue
Headwordcommercial
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\kɔ.mɛʁ.sjal\
Letters10
Frequency rank#2,356
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « commercial »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.commercialse 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 « commandant » (#2,355), « convention » (#2,357), « chansons » (#2,354). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « commercial » est au #2,356. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around commercial (IPA \kɔ.mɛʁ.sjal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #2,356 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui a rapport au commerce, à la vente comme à l’achat.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for commercial, with forms such as "ccommercial", "cmomercial", and "comemrcial". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "commerciale", "commerciaux", "commerciales", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is commercial, spelled C-O-M-M-E-R-C-I-A-L.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui a rapport au commerce, à la vente comme à l’achat.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Eh bien, maître René ! dit-il, comment vont les affaires commerciales ?
  2. Mais ces belles futaies représentent une valeur commerciale qui a mis en appétit la convoitise du spéculateur, déjà riche de capital, plus riche encore en audace et en influence.

This word in other languages

commercial(English)comercial(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccommercial
  • cmomercial
  • comemrcial
  • comercial
  • commecrial
  • commercail
  • commerccial
  • commerciall
  • commercila
  • commerical
  • commerrcial
  • commrecial
  • ocmmercial

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

ccommercial1cmomercial2comemrcial2comercial1commecrial2commercail2commerccial1commerciall1
Edit distance from "commercial"

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 "commercial"?
"commercial" is spelled C-O-M-M-E-R-C-I-A-L. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ.mɛʁ.sjal\.
What does "commercial" mean?
As an adjective, "commercial" means: Qui a rapport au commerce, à la vente comme à l’achat.
What words are commonly confused with "commercial"?
"commercial" is commonly confused with "commerciale", "commerciaux", "commerciales". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "commercial"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "commercial" is \kɔ.mɛʁ.sjal\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "commercial" come from?
"commercial" 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 "commercial", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

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

commandant#2,355convention#2,357couverture#2,359étrangères#2,349

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

chansons13 variantsméthodes13 variantssemblent13 variantspromotion13 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list