communale
\kɔ.my.nal\
The verdict
“communale” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,753. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,753
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - École communale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-communale · communale · French
communale · rank #13,753 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,753
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH commode
Nearest frequency peer: commode (-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 « communale »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- coloration
coloration
86,251 corpus weight
- commencera
commencera
86,250 corpus weight
- commode
commode
86,249 corpus weight
- communale
communale
86,248 corpus weight
- compact
compact
86,247 corpus weight
- comparative…
comparativement
86,246 corpus weight
What this shows « communale » 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 | communale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.my.nal\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #13,753 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « communale »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around communale (IPA \kɔ.my.nal\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,753 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for communale, with forms such as "ccommunale", "cmomunale", and "commnuale". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "commune", "communaux", "communauté", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 communale, spelled C-O-M-M-U-N-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1École communale.
- 2Route communale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how communale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’entrai en amitié dans les jours qui suivirent avec des garçons dont certains avaient usé quelques culottes en ma compagnie sur les bancs de la communale mais que je ne fréquentais plus, bien qu’ils fussent mes voisins.
Mais nos pères n'avaient pas connu les « grandes écoles » comme ils disaient en parlant des lycées et collèges. Seulement la communale, pas toujours et pas longtemps.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccommunale
- cmomunale
- commnuale
- commuanle
- communael
- communalle
- communlae
- communnale
- comumnale
- comunale
- ocmmunale
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of communale - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "communale", 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).