comeback
come·back/ˈkʌmbæk/noun
comeback is spelled C-O-M-E-B-A-C-K, 2 syllables: come·back. The wrong spelling people search most is comback: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 24 of all searches for the word. Comeback is a noun meaning “A return (e.g. to popularity, success, etc.) after an extended period of obscurity or underperformance”. The plural of comeback is comebacks.
How many letters and syllables are in comeback?
| Letters | 8: C-O-M-E-B-A-C-K |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: come·back |
| In writing | 11 times per million words; the 6,565th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, comback, about 30 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell comeback?
Comeback is spelled C-O-M-E-B-A-C-K. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 24 of the searches for comeback in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is comeback?
Comeback appears 11 times per million words in written English, the 6,565th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce comeback?
- US /ˈkʌmbæk/
- US [ˈkʰʌmbæk]
- British /ˈkʌmbak/
Comeback has 2 syllables, split come·back in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-comeback.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with comeback
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: come back (one word or two).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Forms of comeback
- comebacks plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does comeback mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A return (e.g. to popularity, success, etc.) after an extended period of obscurity or underperformance.
That fad went out with the eighties, but I think it's making a comeback.
- 2
A retort or answer, particularly a quick or clever one.
I wish I had thought of a quick comeback for his comment.
- 3
An occurrence of an athlete or sports team in a competition overcoming a substantial disadvantage in points to win or draw.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Comeback in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Rückkehr, Comeback , Retourkutsche |
| Spanish | retorno, repunte , remontada |
| French | repartie , remontée, comeback |
| Portuguese | virada |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does comeback come from?
Deverbal from come back.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).