combat
/ˈkɒmˌbæt/
"combat" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“combat” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #2,660. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,660
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used).
Corpus desk
Index EN-combat · combat · English
combat · rank #2,660 · 9 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,660
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH constitution
Nearest frequency peer: constitution (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “combat”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
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What this shows “combat” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | combat |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkɒmˌbæt/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #2,660 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “combat”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around combat (IPA /ˈkɒmˌbæt/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,660 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for combat, with forms such as "ccombat", "cmobat", and "cobmat". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "combo", "comet", "comma", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: 16th century, borrowed from Middle French combat, deverbal from Old French combatre, from Vulgar Latin *combattere, from Latin com- (“with”) + battuere (“to beat, strike”). The correct English form is combat, spelled C-O-M-B-A-T.
Definition
- 1A battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used).
- 2a struggle for victory
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how combat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;[…]."
In less than eight weeks, five divisions of United States troops have moved into combat, some of them from bases more than 6,000 miles away. More men are on the way. Fighting in difficult country under every kind of hardship, American troops have held back overwhelming numbers of the communist invaders.
Etymology
16th century, borrowed from Middle French combat, deverbal from Old French combatre, from Vulgar Latin *combattere, from Latin com- (“with”) + battuere (“to beat, strike”).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccombat
- cmobat
- cobmat
- comabt
- combatt
- combbat
- combta
- commbat
- ocmbat
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of combat - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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