commis
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,563
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
commis is aFrenchnoun. It means: Celui qui, dans une administration, une banque ou une maison de commerce, est chargé d’un emploi dont il doit rendre compte. Pronounced \kɔ.mi\. It ranks #2,563 in French word frequency. Often confused with coms and commu.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | commis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.mi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #2,563 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for commis is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.mi\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,563 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for commis, with forms such as "ccommis", "cmomis", and "comims". 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, "coms", "commu", "commun", 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 commis, spelled C-O-M-M-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Celui qui, dans une administration, une banque ou une maison de commerce, est chargé d’un emploi dont il doit rendre compte.
- 2Personne qui fournit une aide dans certains métiers.
- 3Employé de bureau subalterne.
- 4Affecté à.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccommis,cmomis,comims,comis,commiss,commsi,ocmmis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for commis
Misspelling Variants of "commis"
Frequency rank: #2,563 in French
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