commissaire
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,867
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
commissaire is aFrenchnoun. It means: Celui qui est commis, chargé d’une commission. Pronounced \kɔ.mi.sɛʁ\. It ranks #2,867 in French word frequency. Often confused with commissaires.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | commissaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.mi.sɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #2,867 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for commissaire is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.mi.sɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,867 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for commissaire, with forms such as "ccommissaire", "cmomissaire", and "comimssaire". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "commissaires", 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 commissaire, spelled C-O-M-M-I-S-S-A-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Celui qui est commis, chargé d’une commission.
- 2Fonctionnaire chargé de la surveillance des compagnies financières ou industrielles.
- 3Délégué chargé par un gouvernement de missions politiques temporaires.
- 4Chef d’État officiel et cérémonial de l’un des trois territoires, représentant du gouvernement fédéral; analogique au gouverneur général fédéral ou du lieutenant-gouverneur d’une province.
- 5, Commissaire de police.
- 6Juge délégué par le tribunal auquel il appartient, pour procéder à certaines opérations et en faire son rapport, lorsqu’il y a lieu.
- 7Personne responsable de la conception, de l’organisation et du déroulement d’une exposition, d’une manifestation scientifique ou culturelle.
- 8Membre d’une commission.
- 9Membre d’une commission.
- 10Celui qui est chargé de diriger les préparatifs et de faire les honneurs, d’un bal, d’une fête, ou d’un banquet.
- 11Épouse d’un commissaire.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccommissaire,cmomissaire,comimssaire,comissaire,commisaire,commisasire,commissaier,commissairre,commissarie,commissiare,commsisaire,ocmmissaire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for commissaire
Misspelling Variants of "commissaire"
Frequency rank: #2,867 in French
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