communes
\kɔ.myn\
The verdict
“communes” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,556. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,556
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de commun.
Corpus desk
Index FR-communes · communes · French
communes · rank #1,556 · 10 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,556
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH catégorie
Nearest frequency peer: catégorie (-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 « communes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- atteindre
atteindre
98,448 corpus weight
- bizarre
bizarre
98,447 corpus weight
- catégorie
catégorie
98,446 corpus weight
- communes
communes
98,445 corpus weight
- conseils
conseils
98,444 corpus weight
- contenu
contenu
98,443 corpus weight
What this shows « communes » 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 | communes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ.myn\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,556 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « communes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around communes (IPA \kɔ.myn\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #1,556 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de commun.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for communes, with forms such as "ccommunes", "cmomunes", and "commnues". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "communs", "communier", "commun", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is communes, spelled C-O-M-M-U-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de commun.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how communes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je n’ose évidemment conseiller le Christ à personne. Je le conseillerais toutefois à Jambet, s’il est religieux, pour le désublimiser, voire même pour le retrouver dans la lutte et l’œuvre communes.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccommunes
- cmomunes
- commnues
- commuens
- communess
- communnes
- communse
- comumnes
- comunes
- ocmmunes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of communes - 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 "communes", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).