comes

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English entry for comes is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /kʌmz/. Corpus data places it at rank #432 in overall English word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "third-person singular simple present indicative of come".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for comes, with forms such as "ccomes", "cmoes", and "coems". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cos", "core", "cops", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is comes, spelled C-O-M-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.