Which to use
“commandement” and “commandements” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #4,134
- “commandement” frequency rank
- #17,906
- “commandements” frequency rank
- 22040
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | commandement | commandements |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Ordre que donne celui qui a pouvoir de commander. | Pluriel de commandement. |
Same sound, different letters: commandement vs commandements
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 12 letters.
Homophone desk: commandement vs commandements
This is the hard kind. commandement and commandements are pronounced identically (\kɔ.mɑ̃d.mɑ̃\) and both work as anoun. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “commandement” sits inside “commandements”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 22040, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
commandement is recorded at frequency rank #4,134, classified as anoun, pronounced \kɔ.mɑ̃d.mɑ̃\. commandements is at rank #17,906, tagged as anoun, pronounced \kɔ.mɑ̃d.mɑ̃\.
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 22040, this pair ranks #360,101 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of commandement vs commandements
Shared letters: acdemnot. Private to "commandement": -. Private to "commandements": s.
"commandement" · 12 letters · shape CVCCVCCVCVCC · "commandements" · 13 letters · shape CVCCVCCVCVCCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- commandement ← ccommandement · cmomandement · comamndement · comandement · commadnement · commanddement · commandeemnt · commandemennt
- commandements ← ccommandements · cmomandements · comamndements · comandements · commadnements · commanddements · commandeemnts · commandemennts
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "commandement" and "commandements" be used interchangeably?
In ordinary French text, does "commandement" or "commandements" show up more?
Useful next steps
"commandement" and "commandements" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "commandement" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "commandements" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #360,101 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "commandement" and "commandements" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "commandement vs commandent". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #360,101 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.