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comment

/ˈkɑmɛnt/noun, verb

comment is spelled C-O-M-M-E-N-T. The wrong spelling people search most is coment: about 220 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 23 of all searches for the word. Comment is a noun meaning “A spoken or written remark”. The plural of comment is comments.

How many letters and syllables are in comment?

Letters7: C-O-M-M-E-N-T
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing76 times per million words; the 1,394th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, coment, about 220 Bing searches a month (all of them)

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).

How do you spell comment?

Comment is spelled C-O-M-M-E-N-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 23 of the searches for comment in either form.

commentthe right spelling4,880 searches a month
comenta missing m220 searches a month

Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.

How common is comment?

Comment appears 76 times per million words in written English, the 1,394th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce comment?

  • UK /ˈkɒmɛnt/
  • British /ˈkɔmɛnt/
  • US /ˈkɑmɛnt/

Comment has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-comment.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of comment

  • comments plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • commenting participle, present
  • commented participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does comment mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A spoken or written remark.

    I have no comment on that.

  2. 2

    The act of commenting.

  3. 3

    The part of a sentence that provides new information regarding the current theme.

  4. 4

    A remark embedded in source code in such a way that it will be ignored by the compiler or interpreter, typically to help people to understand the code.

verb

  1. 1

    To remark.

  2. 2

    To make remarks or notes; to express a view regarding.

    He commented about your proposal.

  3. 3

    obsoleteTo comment or remark on.

  4. 4

    To insert comments into (source code).

    I wish I'd commented this complicated algorithm back when I remembered how it worked.

  5. 5

    To comment out (code); to disable by converting into a comment.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you abbreviate comment?

Wiktionary records 4 abbreviations of comment: CLS, LOC, cmt, cmt..

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Comment in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchcommentaire (spoken remark), commenter (to remark)
GermanKommentar (spoken remark), kommentieren (to remark), Kommentare einfügen (programming: to insert comments)
Portuguesecomentário (spoken remark), comentar, mencionar (to remark)
Spanishcomentario (spoken remark), comentar (to remark), comento (the act of commenting)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does comment come from?

From Middle English coment, comment, from Old French coment (“commentary”), from Late Latin commentum (“comment, interpretation”), from Classical Latin commentum (“invention, fabrication”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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