commit

/[…]/ verb

Letters

6 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

commit is aGermanverb. It means: etwas (meist Verwerfliches) tun: eine Handlung, Tat begehen Pronounced […].

Key facts for commit
PropertyValue
Headwordcommit
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[…]
Letters6
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

commit is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for commit is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for commit in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is commit, spelled C-O-M-M-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    etwas (meist Verwerfliches) tun: eine Handlung, Tat begehen
  2. 2
    etwas auf jeden Fall tun (müssen): sich oder jemanden an etwas (zum Beispiel eine Zusage) binden, (sich) verpflichten, sich jemandem oder etwas verpflichtend widmen
  3. 3
    jemanden durch rechtlichen Beschluss in Gewahrsam geben: in ein Krankenhaus, Heim, Gefängnis, eine Psychiatrie einweisen
  4. 4
    etwas oder jemanden in die Verantwortung eines anderen geben oder an einen anderen Ort bringen: anvertrauen; etwas zur Weiterverwendung übergeben; eine Sache an einen Ausschuss überweisen; Militär entsenden; Gelder bereitstellen
  5. 5
    etwas auf jeden Fall tun (müssen): sich verpflichten, sich binden

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "commit"?
"commit" is spelled C-O-M-M-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "commit" mean?
As a verb, "commit" means: etwas (meist Verwerfliches) tun: eine Handlung, Tat begehen
How do you pronounce "commit"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "commit" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "commit" come from?
"commit" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Other entries that begin with the letter C in our German index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.