com
/dɒt.kɒm/noun, adjective
com is spelled C-O-M: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 17 times per million words in written English, the 4,934th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, com means “Abbreviation of committee” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of com is coms or .coms.
How many letters and syllables are in com?
| Letters | 3: C-O-M |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 17 times per million words; the 4,934th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is com?
Com appears 17 times per million words in written English, the 4,934th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce com?
- /ˌkəm/
- /ˈkʌm/
- /ˌkɑːm/
- UK /dɒt.kɒm/
Com has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-com.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with com?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as com.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: moc.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of com
- coms plural
- com.
- .coms plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does com mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Abbreviation of committee.
- 2
Abbreviation of community.
- 3
Abbreviation of communication.
- 4
Abbreviation of command.
- 5
Abbreviation of comedy.
- 6
Abbreviation of company.
- 7
A player in a video game which is controlled by the computer rather than a human.
noun
- 1
Initialism of centre of mass.
- 2
Initialism of centre of momentum.
- 3
Initialism of commission on ministry.
noun
- 1
Initialism of centre of mass.
adjective
- 1
Abbreviation of commercial; as in .com (the most known Internet top-level domain).
- 2
Abbreviation of common.
l. com. car. a.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).