come apart
"come-apart" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“come apart” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, apart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | come apart |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “come apart” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
come apart is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
come apart doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is come apart, spelled C-O-M-E- -A-P-A-R-T.
Definition
- 1Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, apart.
- 2To break, separate.
- 3To have an emotional breakdown; to become emotionally dysfunctional; to have an intense emotional reaction.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “come apart”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-O-M-E- -A-P-A-R-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.