commentésvscommercesWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: commentés is a verb, commerces is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“commentés” is a verb and “commerces” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#36,768
“commentés” frequency rank
#5,435
“commerces” frequency rank
42203
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature commentés commerces
Definition Participe passé masculin pluriel de commenter. Pluriel de commerce.

Where the eye mixes commentés and commerces

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence.

9 ch
commentés
9 ch
commerces

Why the eye confuses commentés with commerces

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: commentés is \kɔ.mɑ̃.te\ while commerces is \kɔ.mɛʁs\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 42203, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

commentés is recorded at frequency rank #36,768, classified as averb, pronounced \kɔ.mɑ̃.te\. commerces is at rank #5,435, tagged as anoun, pronounced \kɔ.mɛʁs\.

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 42203, this pair ranks #227,421 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of commentés vs commerces

Shared letters: cemos. Private to "commentés": nté. Private to "commerces": r.

"commentés" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCVC  ·  "commerces" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • commercesccommerces · cmomerces · comemrces · comerces · commecres · commercces · commercess · commercse

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "commentés" and "commerces" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "commentés" is a verb and "commerces" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "commentés" or "commerces"?
"commerces" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #5,435 in our French list, against #36,768 for "commentés". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "commentés" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "commerces" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #227,421 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "commentés" and "commerces" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "commencées vs commentés". 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 #227,421 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