commode
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,752
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
commode is anFrenchadj. It means: Dont l’usage est utile et agréable. Pronounced \kɔ.mɔd\. Often confused with common and commune.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | commode |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \kɔ.mɔd\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #13,752 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for commode is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.mɔd\. Corpus data places it at rank #13,752 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for commode, with forms such as "ccommode", "cmomode", and "commdoe". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "common", "commune", "composé", and more, 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 commode, spelled C-O-M-M-O-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dont l’usage est utile et agréable.
- 2En parlant des personnes, être d’une société douce et aisée, d’un bon commerce.
- 3Qui est trop indulgent, trop facile. Ainsi on dit d’un mari qui ferme les yeux sur la mauvaise conduite de sa femme et d’une femme qui donne trop de liberté à sa fille.
- 4Qui est relâché.
- 5Se dit aussi, familièrement et ironiquement, pour signifier qu’on ne met pas assez de façons aux choses, qu’on cherche plus ce qui est aisé que ce qui est convenable.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccommode,cmomode,commdoe,commodde,commoed,comode,comomde,ocmmode
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Misspelling Variants of "commode"
Frequency rank: #13,752 in French
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