come-across
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "come-across", 11-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "come-across" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "come-across" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
come across is aEnglishverb. It means: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, across.
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Browse all word comparisons →| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | come across |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The English entry for come across is 11 letters long, classified as averb. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for come across in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable English 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 English form is come across, spelled C-O-M-E- -A-C-R-O-S-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, across.
- 2To change sides; to cross over to work for the opposition.
- 3To give an appearance or impression; to project a certain image; to seem or appear (to be some way).
- 4To find, usually by accident.
- 5To produce what was desired; to come up with the goods.
- 6To give in and do what is wanted or expected; to acquiesce to something.
- 7To give in and do what is wanted or expected; to acquiesce to something.
- 8To give in and do what is wanted or expected; to acquiesce to something.
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