comme
[kɔm]
The verdict
“comme” is uncommon German (frequency #50,376 among 1,273 “C” headwords), classed as a conjunction. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,376
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - da, denn, weil
Corpus desk
Index DE-comme · comme · German
comme · rank #50,376 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,376
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH coral
Nearest frequency peer: coral (+2 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „comme“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- chiefs
chiefs
49,629 corpus weight
- CIO
CIO
49,628 corpus weight
- comme
comme
49,625 corpus weight
- coral
coral
49,623 corpus weight
- Couchtisch
Couchtisch
49,622 corpus weight
- cougar
cougar
49,621 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „comme“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | comme |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Conjunction |
| IPA | [kɔm] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #50,376 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „comme“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
comme is uncommon German at frequency #50,376 among 1,273 “C” headwords, classed as aconjunction, transcribed [kɔm]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
comme doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is comme, spelled C-O-M-M-E.
Definition
- 1da, denn, weil
- 2zeitlich: als, sowie
- 3wie
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how comme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comme la musique était trop bruyante, il ne pouvait pas s'endormir.
Comme la mère est entrée, le fils s'est caché.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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