# comfort

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈkʌm.fət/ · frequency rank #3,548

## Definitions
1. Contentment, ease.
2. Something that offers comfort.
3. A consolation; something relieving suffering or worry.
4. A cause of relief or satisfaction.

## Etymology
From Middle English comfort, from Old French cunfort, confort, from the stem of Late Latin confortō. It replaced Old English frofor, Middle English frovre.

## Easily confused with
- **conform** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/comfort-vs-conform)
- **compost** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/comfort-vs-compost)
- **consort** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/comfort-vs-consort)
- **comforted** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/comfort-vs-comforted)
- **comforter** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/comfort-vs-comforter)
- **cohort** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cohort-vs-comfort)

## Common misspellings (11)
`ccomfort`, `cmofort`, `cofmort`, `comffort`, `comforrt`, `comfortt`, `comfotr`, `comfrot`, `commfort`, `comofrt`, `ocmfort`

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