communal
\kɔ.my.nal\
The verdict
“communal” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,665. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,665
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui concerne une commune ou les communes ; qui appartient à une commune.
Corpus desk
Index FR-communal · communal · French
communal · rank #10,665 · 10 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,665
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH commerçant
Nearest frequency peer: commerçant (-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 « communal »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- coeurs
coeurs
89,339 corpus weight
- colonial
colonial
89,338 corpus weight
- commerçant
commerçant
89,337 corpus weight
- communal
communal
89,336 corpus weight
- communément
communément
89,335 corpus weight
- composante
composante
89,334 corpus weight
What this shows « communal » 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 | communal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ.my.nal\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #10,665 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « communal »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around communal (IPA \kɔ.my.nal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #10,665 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui concerne une commune ou les communes ; qui appartient à une commune.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for communal, with forms such as "ccommunal", "cmomunal", and "commnual". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "commune", "communs", "communes", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is communal, spelled C-O-M-M-U-N-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui concerne une commune ou les communes ; qui appartient à une commune.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how communal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y avait beau temps, au lavoir communal ou sous les auvents d’aisseaux qu’on échangeait d’oreille à oreille de petites réflexions et qu’on se faisait part d’observations particulières […].
Il existe aux archives communales de Chagny-lès-Omont une copie de la charte des privilèges accordée en 1218 par Pierre, abbé de Saint-Remy de Reims.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccommunal
- cmomunal
- commnual
- commuanl
- communall
- communla
- communnal
- comumnal
- comunal
- ocmmunal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of communal - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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