comeuppance
/kʌmˈʌpəns/
"comeuppance" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“comeuppance” is uncommon English (frequency #63,521 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,521
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Retribution or outcome that is justly deserved.
Corpus desk
Index EN-comeuppance · comeuppance · English
comeuppance · rank #63,521 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,521
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH confiding
Nearest frequency peer: confiding (+2 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “comeuppance”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- codebase
codebase
36,486 corpus weight
- cohesiveness
cohesiveness
36,485 corpus weight
- comeuppance
comeuppance
36,480 corpus weight
- confiding
confiding
36,478 corpus weight
- conversatio…
conversationalist
36,476 corpus weight
- copse
copse
36,475 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “comeuppance” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | comeuppance |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kʌmˈʌpəns/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #63,521 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “comeuppance” in English
Rare enough to double-check
comeuppance is uncommon English at frequency #63,521 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kʌmˈʌpəns/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Retribution or outcome that is justly deserved.".
No misspelling variants are generated for comeuppance in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From come up (“to appear before a judge”) + -ance. The correct English form is comeuppance, spelled C-O-M-E-U-P-P-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Retribution or outcome that is justly deserved.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how comeuppance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
So when Brown's second wife turned out a reg'lar ternygrunt, I wa'n't in no wise upset, for he needed a comeuppance, an' he got it in her.
The Sunday edition of the principal morning paper even expressed some bitterness under the heading, "Gilded Youths of the Fin-de-Siecle"--this was considered the knowing phrase of the time, especially for Sunday supplements--and there is no doubt that from certain references in this bit of writing some people drew the conclusion that Mr. George Amberson M…
Etymology
From come up (“to appear before a judge”) + -ance.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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