# come

> English word · Verb · IPA /kʌm/ · frequency rank #161

## Definitions
1. To move nearer to the point of perspective.
2. To move nearer to the point of perspective.
3. To move nearer to the point of perspective.
4. To move nearer to the point of perspective.
5. To move nearer to the point of perspective.
6. To move nearer to the point of perspective.
7. To arrive.
8. To appear; to manifest itself; to cause a reaction by manifesting.
9. To begin (to have an opinion or feeling).
10. To do something by chance or unintentionally.
11. To take a position relative to something else in a sequence.
12. To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.
13. To become butter by being churned.
14. To approach or reach a state of being or accomplishment.
15. To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.
16. To become, to turn out to be (often in set phrases and certain collocations).
17. To be supplied, or made available; to exist.
18. To carry through; to succeed in.
19. To happen.
20. To have as an origin, originate.
21. To have as an origin, originate.
22. To have as an origin, originate.
23. To have as an origin, originate.
24. To germinate.
25. To pretend to be; to behave in the manner of; to assume the role of.

## Etymology
From Middle English comen, cumen, from Old English cuman, from Proto-West Germanic *kweman, from Proto-Germanic *kwemaną (“to come”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷémt (“to step; to arrive”), from *gʷem- (“to come, step”).
Cognates
Cognate from Proto-Germanic with Scots cum (“to come”), Yola come, coome, cum (“to come”), North Frisian kaame, kame, keem, kem, kum, kååme, käme (“to come”), Saterland Frisian kume, kuume (“to come”), West Frisian komme (“to come”), Alemannic German cha, cheemen, cheme, cho, chomu, chéeme (“to come”), Bavarian ckeman, kemma, kemman, khemen, kumma, kumman, kèmmin (“to come”), Central Franconian komme, kunn, kumme (“to come”), Cimbrian ken, khemmen, khèmman (“to come”), Dutch komen, kommen (“to come”), Dutch Low Saxon kåmen (“to come”), German and Luxembourgish kommen (“to come”), Low German kamen, kuemen (“to come”), Mòcheno kemmen (“to come”), Yiddish קימען (kimen), קומען (kumen, “to come”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål komme (“to come”), Elfdalian kumå (“to come”), Faroese and Icelandic koma (“to come; to arrive”), Jamtish kuma (“to come”), Norwegian Nynorsk koma, komma, komme, kåmmå, kåmå (“to come”), Swedish komma (“to come”), Crimean Gothic kommen (“to come”), Gothic 𐌵𐌹𐌼𐌰𐌽 (qiman, “to come”).
Cognate from Proto-Indo-European with Latin venio (“to come; to approach”), Greek βήμα (víma, “pace, step”), Albanian ngah, ngaj (“to hasten, run”), Latvian dzimt (“to be born”), Lithuanian gimti (“to be born”), Armenian եկ (ek, “the act of coming, arrival; income”), Avestan 𐬔𐬀𐬨 (gam, “to come, go”), Northern Kurdish gav (“step”), Persian گام (gâm, “step”), Tocharian A kum- (“to come”), Tocharian B käm- (“to come”), Sanskrit गम् (gam, “to come, go, move”).

## Easily confused with
- **cop** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/come-vs-cop)
- **con** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/come-vs-con)
- **cow** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/come-vs-cow)
- **cos** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/come-vs-cos)
- **cum** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/come-vs-cum)
- **cox** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/come-vs-cox)
- **cue** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/come-vs-cue)
- **cor** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/come-vs-cor)
- **coo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/come-vs-coo)
- **cot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/come-vs-cot)
- **coz** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/come-vs-coz)
- **coy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/come-vs-coy)
- **CRM** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/come-vs-crm)
- **CTE** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/come-vs-cte)
- **Cov** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/come-vs-cov)
- **CSM** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/come-vs-csm)
- **CSE** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/come-vs-cse)
- **cost** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/come-vs-cost)
- **cool** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/come-vs-cool)
- **copy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/come-vs-copy)

## Common misspellings (5)
`ccome`, `cmoe`, `coem`, `comme`, `ocme`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/come