Which to use
“commercial” and “commerciales” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #2,356
- “commercial” frequency rank
- #4,558
- “commerciales” frequency rank
- 6914
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | commercial | commerciales |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui a rapport au commerce, à la vente comme à l’achat. | Féminin pluriel de commercial. |
Same sound, different letters: commercial vs commerciales
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters. commercial runs 10 letters (CVCCVCCVVC) against commerciales's 12 (CVCCVCCVVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - commercial / commerciales
This is the hard kind. commercial and commerciales are pronounced identically (\kɔ.mɛʁ.sjal\) and both work as anadjective. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 2 extra letter(s) - “commercial” sits inside “commerciales”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 6914, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
commercial is recorded at frequency rank #2,356, classified as anadj, pronounced \kɔ.mɛʁ.sjal\. commerciales is at rank #4,558, tagged as anadj, pronounced \kɔ.mɛʁ.sjal\.
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 6914, this pair ranks #424,837 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of commercial vs commerciales
Shared letters: aceilmor. Private to "commercial": -. Private to "commerciales": s.
"commercial" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCCVVC · "commerciales" · 12 letters · shape CVCCVCCVVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- commercial ← ccommercial · cmomercial · comemrcial · comercial · commecrial · commercail · commerccial · commerciall
- commerciales ← ccommerciales · cmomerciales · comemrciales · comerciales · commecriales · commercailes · commercciales · commerciaels
Frequently Asked Questions
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After this comparison
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "commercial" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "commerciales" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #424,837 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "commercial" and "commerciales" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "commerciales vs commercialisés". 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 #424,837 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.