cometh

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The English entry for cometh is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈkʌm.əθ/. Corpus data places it at rank #34,439 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "third-person singular simple present indicative of come".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for cometh, with forms such as "ccometh", "cmoeth", and "coemth". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "Comey", "comte", "covet", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English cometh, cumeþ, comth, cumþ, kimeð, from Old English cymþ, cymeþ, from Proto-Germanic *kwimidi, third person singular indicative of Proto-Germanic *kwemaną (“to come”), equivalent to come + -eth. Cognate with Saterland Frisian kumt, West … 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 cometh, spelled C-O-M-E-T-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.