Commonwealth

\kɔ.mɔn.wɛls\

/\kɔ.mɔn.wɛls\/ name

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The verdict

“Commonwealth” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,784. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#19,784
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
17
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ensemble actuel des nations, pour la plupart anglophones, qui faisaient partie de l’Empire britannique avant sa disparition.

Corpus desk

Index FR-commonwealth · Commonwealth · French

Commonwealth · rank #19,784 · 17 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #19,784
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 17 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH commencèrent

Nearest frequency peer: commencèrent (-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 « Commonwealth »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « Commonwealth » 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
Key facts for Commonwealth
PropertyValue
HeadwordCommonwealth
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\kɔ.mɔn.wɛls\
Letters12
Frequency rank#19,784
Misspellings tracked17
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Commonwealth »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Commonwealthse place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « commencèrent » (#19,783), « combustibles » (#19,782), « compartiments » (#19,786). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « Commonwealth » est au #19,784. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 17 spelling variants around Commonwealth (IPA \kɔ.mɔn.wɛls\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #19,784 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ensemble actuel des nations, pour la plupart anglophones, qui faisaient partie de l’Empire britannique avant sa disparition.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for Commonwealth, with forms such as "ccommonwealth", "cmomonwealth", and "commnowealth". 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. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Commonwealth, spelled C-O-M-M-O-N-W-E-A-L-T-H.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ensemble actuel des nations, pour la plupart anglophones, qui faisaient partie de l’Empire britannique avant sa disparition.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Quelques-uns (dont Dave Davis et Boris Johnson) ont suggéré de réanimer le Commonwealth (l’« Anglosphere ») comme substitut à l’Union européenne.
  2. Lui aussi membre du Commonwealth, le président sud-africain a mis en avant « sa vie et son héritage [qui] resteront gravés dans les mémoires de nombreuses personnes à travers le monde », a indiqué Cyril Ramaphosa.

This word in other languages

Commonwealth(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccommonwealth
  • cmomonwealth
  • commnowealth
  • commonewalth
  • commonnwealth
  • commonwaelth
  • commonwealht
  • commonweallth
  • commonwealthh
  • commonwealtth
  • commonweatlh
  • commonwelath
  • commonwwealth
  • commownealth
  • comomnwealth
  • comonwealth
  • ocmmonwealth

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Commonwealth - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

ccommonwealth1cmomonwealth2commnowealth2commonewalth2commonnwealth1commonwaelth2commonwealht2commonweallth1
Edit distance from "Commonwealth"

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 "Commonwealth"?
"Commonwealth" is spelled C-O-M-M-O-N-W-E-A-L-T-H. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ.mɔn.wɛls\.
What does "Commonwealth" mean?
As a proper noun, "Commonwealth" means: Ensemble actuel des nations, pour la plupart anglophones, qui faisaient partie de l’Empire britannique avant sa disparition.
What are common misspellings of "Commonwealth"?
Common misspellings include "ccommonwealth", "cmomonwealth", "commnowealth", "commonewalth", "commonnwealth". The correct spelling is "Commonwealth".
How do you pronounce "Commonwealth"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Commonwealth" is \kɔ.mɔn.wɛls\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Commonwealth" come from?
"Commonwealth" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

commencèrent#19,783combustibles#19,782débordements#19,815hospitalière#19,859

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).

accessoirement17 variantsirréversible17 variantsreconnaissable17 variantsprogéniture17 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list