commissariat
\kɔ.mi.sa.ʁja\
The verdict
“commissariat” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #6,276 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #6,276
- frequency rank, French
- 12
- letters
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Qualité, emploi de commissaire.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | commissariat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.mi.sa.ʁja\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #6,276 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “commissariat” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for commissariat is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.mi.sa.ʁja\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,276 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for commissariat, with forms such as "ccommissariat", "cmomissariat", and "comimssariat". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "commissariats", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 commissariat, spelled C-O-M-M-I-S-S-A-R-I-A-T.
Definition
- 1Qualité, emploi de commissaire.
- 2Lieu où siège le commissaire.
- 3Commissariat de police.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccommissariat,cmomissariat,comimssariat,comissariat,commisariat,commisasriat,commissairat,commissarait,commissariatt,commissarita,commissarriat,commissraiat,commsisariat,ocmmissariat
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of commissariat - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “commissariat”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-O-M-M-I-S-S-A-R-I-A-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kɔ.mi.sa.ʁja\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “commissariats” - see the side-by-side comparison. commissariat vs commissariats
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.