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commie

com·mie/ˈkɑ.mi/noun, adjective

commie is spelled C-O-M-M-I-E: 6 letters and 2 syllables (com·mie). It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 31,974th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a derogatory noun, commie means “A communist; a person with communist sympathies; a supposed communist infiltrator” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of commie is commies.

How many letters and syllables are in commie?

Letters6: C-O-M-M-I-E
Syllables2: com·mie
In writingabout once in every 1 million words; the 31,974th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is commie?

Commie appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 31,974th 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 commie?

  • UK /ˈkɒ.mi/
  • US /ˈkɑ.mi/
  • Australia /ˈkɔ.mi/

Commie has 2 syllables, split com·mie in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: EN-AU_ck1_commie.ogg, En-au-Commie.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with commie?

9 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as commie from its last stressed vowel (/ɑmi/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of commie

  • commies plural

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

What does commie mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    derogatoryslangA communist; a person with communist sympathies; a supposed communist infiltrator.

    Hell, I'd rather talk with a commie than ever meet Catherine in a café.

  2. 2

    derogatoryslangSynonym of anticapitalist.

  3. 3

    AustraliacolloquialA Holden Commodore.

  4. 4

    colloquialA commercial vehicle.

adjective

  1. 1

    derogatoryslangCommunist.

noun

as Commie
  1. 1

    derogatoryslangA Communist.

  2. 2

    slangA Commodore computer.

adjective

as Commie
  1. 1

    derogatoryslangCommunist.

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

Commie in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense communist (pejorative):

LanguageWords
Frenchcoco
GermanKommi
Portuguesecomuna
Spanishcomunistoide, rojo, rojillo, bolche (Rio de la Plata), zurdo, chairo

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 commie come from?

Blend of communist + -ie (diminutive suffix).

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

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