Which to use
“commando” and “commandos” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #14,637
- “commando” frequency rank
- #25,937
- “commandos” frequency rank
- 40574
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | commando | commandos |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Unité spéciale entraînée pour exécuter des missions dangereuses sur des objectifs déterminés. | Pluriel de commando. |
Same sound, different letters: commando vs commandos
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters.
Same sound, different spelling - commando / commandos
This is the hard kind. commando and commandos are pronounced identically (\kɔ.mɑ̃.do\) 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) - “commando” sits inside “commandos”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 40574, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
commando is recorded at frequency rank #14,637, classified as anoun, pronounced \kɔ.mɑ̃.do\. commandos is at rank #25,937, tagged as anoun, pronounced \kɔ.mɑ̃.do\.
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 40574, this pair ranks #239,496 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of commando vs commandos
Shared letters: acdmno. Private to "commando": -. Private to "commandos": s.
"commando" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCCV · "commandos" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "commando" and "commandos" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "commando" vs "commandos" - which ranks higher?
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 "commando" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "commandos" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #239,496 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "commando" and "commandos" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "command vs commandos". 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 #239,496 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.