commère
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#46,075
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
commère is aFrenchnoun. It means: Personne qui est la marraine d’un même enfant, du point de vue du parrain, du père et de mère de l’enfant. Pronounced \kɔ.mɛʁ\. Often confused with commet and commune.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | commère |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.mɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #46,075 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for commère is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.mɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #46,075 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for commère, with forms such as "ccommère", "cmomère", and "commere". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "commet", "commune", "compare", 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 commère, spelled C-O-M-M-È-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Personne qui est la marraine d’un même enfant, du point de vue du parrain, du père et de mère de l’enfant.
- 2Femme bavarde, qui aime jaser, médire d’autrui.
- 3Appellation familière, entre gens du peuple qui ont des relations fréquentes.
- 4Femme du peuple qui a de la tête, une femme hardie, que rien ne rebute, une maîtresse femme.
- 5Les deux personnages principaux d’une revue. → voir compère
- 6Animatrice d’une revue.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccommère,cmomère,commere,commrèe,commèer,commèrre,comèmre,comère,ocmmère
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for commère
Misspelling Variants of "commère"
Frequency rank: #46,075 in French
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