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

#16,097
“commise” frequency rank
#11,542
“commises” frequency rank
27639
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature commise commises
Definition Femme qui fournit une aide dans certains métiers. Pluriel de commise.

Same sound, different letters: commise vs commises

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters.

7 ch
commise
8 ch
commises

Ear matches; page differs - commise and commises

This is the hard kind. commise and commises are pronounced identically (\kɔ.miz\) 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) - “commise” sits inside “commises”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 27639, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

commise is recorded at frequency rank #16,097, classified as anoun, pronounced \kɔ.miz\. commises is at rank #11,542, tagged as anoun, pronounced \kɔ.miz\.

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 27639, this pair ranks #327,765 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of commise vs commises

Shared letters: ceimos. Private to "commise": -. Private to "commises": -.

"commise" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCV  ·  "commises" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • commiseccommise · cmomise · comimse · comise · commies · commsie · ocmmise
  • commisesccommises · cmomises · comimses · comises · commiess · commisess · commisse · commisses

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "commise" and "commises" be used interchangeably?
No. They are pronounced the same (\kɔ.miz\), 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 "commise" or "commises" show up more?
"commises" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #11,542 in our French list, against #16,097 for "commise". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

"commise" and "commises" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

  • Full dictionary entry for "commise" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "commises" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #327,765 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "commise" and "commises" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "commère vs commise". 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 #327,765 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