commun
\kɔ.mœ̃\
The verdict
“commun” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #1,022 in French word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #1,022
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Qui sert, qui peut servir à tout le monde ou seulement à plusieurs personnes.
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 | commun |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ.mœ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,022 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “commun” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for commun is 6 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.mœ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,022 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 17 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for commun, with forms such as "ccommun", "cmomun", and "commnu". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "commune", "communs", "communes", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 commun, spelled C-O-M-M-U-N.
Definition
- 1Qui sert, qui peut servir à tout le monde ou seulement à plusieurs personnes.
- 2Partagé par différents êtres ou par différentes choses.
- 3Mutuel, réciproque.
- 4Public, collectif.
- 5Général ; ordinaire ; habituel ; moyen ; qui appartient ou peut appartenir à la plupart des hommes ou à un grand nombre d’hommes.
- 6Répandu et abondant ; fréquent ; courant.
- 7Propriété valable pour plusieurs nombres ou entités.
- 8Ce qui appartient à la fois à deux figures que l’on compare.
- 9Relatif à une communauté de biens.
- 10Qualifie les mots, les termes ordinaires d’une langue, par opposition à ceux qui ne sont usités que dans les arts et dans les sciences.
- 11Qualifie la langue qui est parlée le plus généralement dans un pays, ou parfois sert de langue d'échange (koiné).
- 12Qui est médiocre, qui ne sort pas de l’ordinaire, qui est peu estimable dans son genre.
- 13De peu de valeur et d’une qualité médiocre.
- 14Vulgaire, bas, par opposition à noble, distingué.
- 15Épicène, ayant une terminaison identique au masculin et au féminin ^([2]).
- 16Dans certaines langues, genre grammatical avec tous ses articles issu d'une fusion du masculin et du féminin, alors que le neutre demeure.
- 17En prosodie, ce dit d’une syllabe, ou de la voyelle qui la compose, qui est douteuse, c’est-à-dire qui peut être brève ou longue.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccommun,cmomun,commnu,communn,comumn,comun,ocmmun
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of commun - 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.
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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Using “commun”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-O-M-M-U-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kɔ.mœ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “commune” - see the side-by-side comparison. commun vs commune
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.