commissariat

\kɔ.mi.sa.ʁja\

/\kɔ.mi.sa.ʁja\/ noun

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The verdict

“commissariat” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,276. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,276
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualité, emploi de commissaire.

Corpus desk

Index FR-commissariat · commissariat · French

commissariat · rank #6,276 · 14 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,276
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH choisie

Nearest frequency peer: choisie (-1 rank slots)

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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « commissariat »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « commissariat » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

commissariat vs commissariats
92% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for commissariat
PropertyValue
Headwordcommissariat
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ.mi.sa.ʁja\
Letters12
Frequency rank#6,276
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « commissariat »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).commissariatse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « choisie » (#6,275), « concernent » (#6,277), « chatte » (#6,274). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « commissariat » est au #6,276. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around commissariat (IPA \kɔ.mi.sa.ʁja\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,276 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

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

  1. 1
    Qualité, emploi de commissaire.
  2. 2
    Lieu où siège le commissaire.
  3. 3
    Commissariat de police.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how commissariat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Cet employé a obtenu un commissariat.
  2. Haut commissariat, dignité du haut commissaire.

This word in other languages

commissionership(English)comisaría(Español)Kommissariat(Deutsch)

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.

ccommissariat1cmomissariat2comimssariat2comissariat1commisariat1commisasriat2commissairat2commissarait2
Edit distance from "commissariat"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "commissariat"?
"commissariat" is spelled C-O-M-M-I-S-S-A-R-I-A-T. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ.mi.sa.ʁja\.
What does "commissariat" mean?
As a noun, "commissariat" means: Qualité, emploi de commissaire.
What words are commonly confused with "commissariat"?
"commissariat" is commonly confused with "commissariats". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "commissariat"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "commissariat" is \kɔ.mi.sa.ʁja\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "commissariat" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "commissariat", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

coordination#6,281intelligente#6,208championnats#6,169illustration#6,400

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

consensus14 variantsfiscalité14 variantsmodalités14 variantssoutiennent14 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list