# come vs cone

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### come
*verb · IPA /kʌm/ · frequency rank #161*
To move nearer to the point of perspective.

### cone
*noun · IPA /ˈkəʊn/ · frequency rank #9,153*
A surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/come-vs-cone