comminatoire
\kɔ.mi.na.twaʁ\
The verdict
“comminatoire” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualifie une mesure révocable destinée à faire pression sur un débiteur ; l’astreinte prononcée par le juge est souvent comminatoire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-comminatoire · comminatoire · French
comminatoire · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | comminatoire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ.mi.na.twaʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
comminatoire is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɔ.mi.na.twaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for comminatoire in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is comminatoire, spelled C-O-M-M-I-N-A-T-O-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qualifie une mesure révocable destinée à faire pression sur un débiteur ; l’astreinte prononcée par le juge est souvent comminatoire.
- 2Désigne une mesure destinée à faire pression sur un débiteur, mais qui n’est pas définitive et est susceptible d’être révisée après un certain laps de temps.
- 3Ce qui implique ou qui contient une menace.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how comminatoire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une astreinte comminatoire.
La loi expliquée resta sans effet. Elle n’était que comminatoire, et ne frappait les nobles et non nobles que jusqu’à ce qu’ils fussent rentrés dans le devoir.
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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.