commission
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#766
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
commission is aFrenchnoun. It means: Mandat, charge que l’on donne à quelqu’un de faire quelque chose. Pronounced \kɔ.mi.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #766 in French word frequency. Often confused with compassion and commissions.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | commission |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.mi.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #766 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for commission is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.mi.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #766 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for commission, with forms such as "ccommission", "cmomission", and "comimssion". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "compassion", "commissions", 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 commission, spelled C-O-M-M-I-S-S-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mandat, charge que l’on donne à quelqu’un de faire quelque chose.
- 2Message dont on charge un domestique, un subalterne, un commissionnaire.
- 3Profession de celui qui fait habituellement des actes de commerce pour le compte d’autrui.
- 4Ce qu’un commissionnaire, un mandataire perçoit pour son salaire.
- 5Ce qu’un commissionnaire, un mandataire perçoit pour son salaire.
- 6Lettre de marque, délivrée par un État à un corsaire.
- 7Réunion de personnes commises pour remplir des fonctions spéciales, ou chargées d’un travail préparatoire, de l’examen d’une chose, d’une affaire.
- 8Tribunal d’exception.
- 9Miction ou défécation. → voir petite commission et grosse commission
- 10Fait de commettre quelque chose, généralement une faute.
- 11Achat effectué pour les besoins courants.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccommission,cmomission,comimssion,comission,commision,commisison,commissino,commissionn,commissoin,commsision,ocmmission
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for commission
Misspelling Variants of "commission"
Frequency rank: #766 in French
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Nearby French words
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