commanditairevscommanditairesTell them apart

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“commanditaire” and “commanditaires” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#24,522
“commanditaire” frequency rank
#27,011
“commanditaires” frequency rank
51533
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature commanditaire commanditaires
Definition Celui qui n’est que simple bailleur de fonds dans une société en commandite. Pluriel de commanditaire.

Same sound, different letters: commanditaire vs commanditaires

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 13 letters. commanditaire runs 13 letters (CVCCVCCVCVVCV) against commanditaires's 14 (CVCCVCCVCVVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

13 ch
commanditaire
14 ch
commanditaires

Same sound, different spelling - commanditaire / commanditaires

This is the hard kind. commanditaire and commanditaires are pronounced identically (\kɔ.mɑ̃.di.tɛʁ\) 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) - “commanditaire” sits inside “commanditaires”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 51533, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

commanditaire is recorded at frequency rank #24,522, classified as anoun, pronounced \kɔ.mɑ̃.di.tɛʁ\. commanditaires is at rank #27,011, tagged as anoun, pronounced \kɔ.mɑ̃.di.tɛʁ\.

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 51533, this pair ranks #154,314 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of commanditaire vs commanditaires

Shared letters: acdeimnort. Private to "commanditaire": -. Private to "commanditaires": s.

"commanditaire" · 13 letters · shape CVCCVCCVCVVCV  ·  "commanditaires" · 14 letters · shape CVCCVCCVCVVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • commanditaireccommanditaire · cmomanditaire · comamnditaire · comanditaire · commadnitaire · commandditaire · commandiatire · commanditaier
  • commanditairesccommanditaires · cmomanditaires · comamnditaires · comanditaires · commadnitaires · commandditaires · commandiatires · commanditaiers

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "commanditaire" and "commanditaires" be used interchangeably?
No. They are pronounced the same (\kɔ.mɑ̃.di.tɛʁ\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
In ordinary French text, does "commanditaire" or "commanditaires" show up more?
"commanditaire" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #24,522 in our French list, against #27,011 for "commanditaires". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

  • Full dictionary entry for "commanditaire" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "commanditaires" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #154,314 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • 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 #154,314 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