commentvscoventTell them apart

Which to use

“comment” and “covent” are a confusable English pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#1,392
“comment” frequency rank
#27,416
“covent” frequency rank
28808
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature comment covent
Definition A spoken or written remark. Convent.

Letter map: comment vs covent

Shared letters muted; letters that set comment and covent apart highlighted. Shared run: 5.

7 ch
comment
6 ch
covent

Spelling & dictionary notes on comment vs covent

comment and covent are indexed as a confusable English pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 28808, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

comment is recorded at frequency rank #1,392, classified as anoun, pronounced /ˈkɒm.ɛnt/. covent is at rank #27,416, tagged as anoun.

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 28808, this pair ranks #368,157 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of comment vs covent

Shared letters: cenot. Private to "comment": m. Private to "covent": v.

"comment" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCC  ·  "covent" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • commentccomment · cmoment · comemnt · coment · commennt · commentt · commetn · commnet
  • coventccovent · coevnt · covennt · coventt · covetn · covnet · covvent · cvoent

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "comment" for "covent" ever safe?
No. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Which is more common, "comment" or "covent"?
"comment" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,392 in our English list, against #27,416 for "covent". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "comment" and "covent".

  • Full dictionary entry for "comment" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "covent" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #368,157 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "comment" and "covent" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "covent vs covey". 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 #368,157 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list