commettre
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,797
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
commettre is aFrenchverb. It means: Faire tel ou tel acte blâmable. Pronounced \kɔ.mɛtʁ\. It ranks #6,797 in French word frequency. Often confused with committee and commère.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | commettre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ.mɛtʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #6,797 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for commettre is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.mɛtʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,797 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for commettre, with forms such as "ccommettre", "cmomettre", and "comemttre". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "committee", "commère", "commente", 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 commettre, spelled C-O-M-M-E-T-T-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Faire tel ou tel acte blâmable.
- 2Préposer quelqu’un à quelque chose.
- 3Nommer un juge.
- 4Confier.
- 5Compromettre, exposer mal à propos à quelque danger, à quelque embarras, à quelque avanie, etc.
- 6Tordre ensemble plusieurs torons pour en former un cordage.
- 7Produire (un livre, un film, etc.).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccommettre,cmomettre,comemttre,comettre,commetre,commetrte,commetter,commettrre,commtetre,ocmmettre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for commettre
Misspelling Variants of "commettre"
Frequency rank: #6,797 in French
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