commuter
\kɔ.my.te\
The verdict
“commuter” is uncommon French (frequency #91,544 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,544
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Modifier les connexions d’un circuit électrique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-commuter · commuter · French
commuter · rank #91,544 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,544
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH collisionneur
Nearest frequency peer: collisionneur (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « commuter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cognait
cognait
8,460 corpus weight
- collisionne…
collisionneur
8,458 corpus weight
- commuter
commuter
8,457 corpus weight
- Compans
Compans
8,456 corpus weight
- comparants
comparants
8,455 corpus weight
- compostables
compostables
8,453 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « commuter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | commuter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ.my.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #91,544 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « commuter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
commuter is uncommon French at frequency #91,544 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ.my.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for commuter, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is commuter, spelled C-O-M-M-U-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Modifier les connexions d’un circuit électrique.
- 2Modifier les liaisons entre plusieurs circuits.
- 3Intervertir l’ordre des facteurs, des termes, sans que cela modifie le résultat final.
- 4Remplacer un élément d’un mot ou d’une phrase par un autre, cette variation affectant éventuellement le sens.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how commuter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il a alors commuté sa boite de vitesses automatique en position Neutre, il a serré le frein à main, puis il est descendu rapidement de son véhicule pour actionner les commandes de relèvement des suspensions de la semi-remorque
Le télex est un réseau télégraphique commuté, dont les appareils ne sont pas reliés entre eux de façon fixe, mais par l’intermédiaire d’un commutateur.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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