committee
\kəˈmɪt.i\
The verdict
“committee” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,029. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,029
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Comité, commission, particulièrement avec un protocole formel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-committee · committee · French
committee · rank #34,029 · 9 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,029
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coli
Nearest frequency peer: coli (-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 « committee »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- chromosome
chromosome
65,975 corpus weight
- clamer
clamer
65,974 corpus weight
- coli
coli
65,973 corpus weight
- committee
committee
65,972 corpus weight
- commémore
commémore
65,971 corpus weight
- connaissions
connaissions
65,970 corpus weight
What this shows « committee » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | committee |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kəˈmɪt.i\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #34,029 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « committee »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around committee (IPA \kəˈmɪt.i\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,029 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Comité, commission, particulièrement avec un protocole formel.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for committee, with forms such as "ccommittee", "cmomittee", and "comimttee". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "commettre", "commentée", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is committee, spelled C-O-M-M-I-T-T-E-E.
Definition
- 1Comité, commission, particulièrement avec un protocole formel.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccommittee
- cmomittee
- comimttee
- comittee
- commitee
- commitete
- committe
- commtitee
- ocmmittee
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of committee - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "committee", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).