come to a close
"come-to-a-close" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“come to a close” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To draw toward a conclusion; to end.
Corpus desk
Index EN-come-to-a-close · come to a close · English
come to a close · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | come to a close |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “come to a close” in English
Rare enough to double-check
come to a close is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To draw toward a conclusion; to end.".
Zero misspellings are on record for come to a close in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, 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 easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is come to a close, spelled C-O-M-E- -T-O- -A- -C-L-O-S-E.
Definition
- 1To draw toward a conclusion; to end.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how come to a close appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Big hair went out of style as the 1980s came to a close.
Synonyms
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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.