comm
"comm" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“comm” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #17,801) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #17,801
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Clipping of communication.
Corpus desk
Index EN-comm · comm · English
comm · rank #17,801 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,801
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH colossal
Nearest frequency peer: colossal (-1 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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “comm”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- collier
collier
82,202 corpus weight
- colossal
colossal
82,201 corpus weight
- comm
comm
82,200 corpus weight
- commodore
commodore
82,199 corpus weight
- compiler
compiler
82,198 corpus weight
- conserve
conserve
82,197 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “comm” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | comm |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #17,801 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “comm”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for comm is neighbouring look-alikes ("cop", "con", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #17,801 among 5,599 “C” headwords. 5 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for comm, with forms such as "ccomm", "cmom", and "com". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cop", "con", "cow", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is comm, spelled C-O-M-M.
Definition
- 1Clipping of communication.
- 2Clipping of commission.
- 3Clipping of committee.
- 4Clipping of commandant.
- 5Synonym of commlink.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how comm appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hand gestures are also essential to Belter communication, as they evolved from the days of wearing space suits with poor comms during the early settler days.
I didn’t appreciate it yet, but the bike I’d bought was a little too big for me and I wasn’t sitting in the optimal position. One day, a few weeks in, I posted a sitrep: ‘Frustrating day with delays, crazy truck drivers, no room at the inn, comms playing up — but covered over 110km!’
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccomm
- cmom
- com
- ocmm
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of comm - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "comm", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).