commandéevscommentéeWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: commandée is a adjective, commentée is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“commandée” is an adjective and “commentée” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#13,994
“commandée” frequency rank
#26,302
“commentée” frequency rank
40296
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature commandée commentée
Definition Féminin singulier de commandé. Participe passé féminin singulier de commenter.

Where the eye mixes commandée and commentée

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence. commandée and commentée follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCVCCVV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

9 ch
commandée
9 ch
commentée

Visual trap between commandée and commentée

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: commandée is \kɔ.mɑ̃.de\ while commentée is \kɔ.mɑ̃.te\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (adjective vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 40296, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

commandée is recorded at frequency rank #13,994, classified as anadj, pronounced \kɔ.mɑ̃.de\. commentée is at rank #26,302, tagged as averb, pronounced \kɔ.mɑ̃.te\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 40296, this pair ranks #241,578 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of commandée vs commentée

Shared letters: cemnoé. Private to "commandée": ad. Private to "commentée": t.

"commandée" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCVV  ·  "commentée" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCVV

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "commandée" for "commentée" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "commandée" is an adjective and "commentée" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "commandée" or "commentée"?
"commandée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #13,994 in our French list, against #26,302 for "commentée". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Eye-level mix-up between "commandée" and "commentée" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "commandée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "commentée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #241,578 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "commandée" and "commentée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "commentée vs contentée". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #241,578 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list