commiserate
/kəˈmɪzəɹət/
"commiserate" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“commiserate” is uncommon English (frequency #73,970 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,970
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commiserating, pitying, lamentful.
Corpus desk
Index EN-commiserate · commiserate · English
commiserate · rank #73,970 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,970
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH comorbidity
Nearest frequency peer: comorbidity (+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.
Long-tail ranks near “commiserate”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- clearness
clearness
26,035 corpus weight
- clop
clop
26,034 corpus weight
- cobs
cobs
26,033 corpus weight
- commiserate
commiserate
26,031 corpus weight
- comorbidity
comorbidity
26,030 corpus weight
- complainer
complainer
26,028 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “commiserate” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | commiserate |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /kəˈmɪzəɹət/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #73,970 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “commiserate” in English
Rare enough to double-check
commiserate is uncommon English at frequency #73,970 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /kəˈmɪzəɹət/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commiserating, pitying, lamentful.".
Zero misspellings are on record for commiserate in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From commiserātus, the perfect passive participle of commiseror. The correct English form is commiserate, spelled C-O-M-M-I-S-E-R-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1Commiserating, pitying, lamentful.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how commiserate appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In the time of Gregory Nazianzene, if we may credit ecclesiastical records, there sprung up the direfulest mortality in Rome that mankind hath been acquainted with; scarce able were the living to bury the dead, and not so much but their streets were digged up for graves, which this holy Father (with no little commiserate heart-bleeding) beholding, command…
Etymology
From commiserātus, the perfect passive participle of commiseror.
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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