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commit

com·mit/kəˈmɪt/verb, noun

commit is spelled C-O-M-M-I-T, 2 syllables: com·mit. The wrong spelling people search most is comit: about 540 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Commit is a verb meaning “To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto”.

How many letters and syllables are in commit?

Letters6: C-O-M-M-I-T
Syllables2: com·mit
In writing21 times per million words; the 4,076th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, comit, about 540 Bing searches a month (all of them)

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); 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 commit?

Commit is spelled C-O-M-M-I-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for commit in either form.

committhe right spelling2,820 searches a month
comita missing m540 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 commit?

Commit appears 21 times per million words in written English, the 4,076th 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 commit?

  • /kəˈmɪt/

Commit has 2 syllables, split com·mit in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Mélange_a_trois-commit.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of commit

  • commits present, singular, he/she/it, plural
  • committing participle, present
  • committed participle, past, singular, he/she/it, plural

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

What does commit mean?

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

verb

  1. 1

    To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.

    Commit these numbers to memory.

  2. 2

    To imprison: to forcibly place in a jail.

  3. 3

    To forcibly evaluate and treat in a medical facility, particularly for presumed mental illness.

    Tony should be committed to a nuthouse!

  4. 4

    To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.

    to commit murder

  5. 5

    To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step. (Traditionally used only reflexively but now also without oneself etc.)

    to commit oneself to a certain action

  6. 6

    To make a set of changes permanent.

  7. 7

    To integrate new revisions into the public or master version of a file in a version control system.

  8. 8

    obsoleteTo enter into a contest; to match; often followed by with.

noun

  1. 1

    The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction), making it a permanent change; such a change.

  2. 2

    The submission of source code or other material to a source control repository.

  3. 3

    USinformalA person, especially a high school athlete, who agrees verbally or signs a letter committing to attend a college or university.

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

Commit in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchconfier, commettre, remettre (to entrust; to consign), consigner (to imprison), s'engager (to pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or…), modification (submission of source code)
Germananvertrauen, (vertrauensvoll) übergeben (to entrust; to consign), einsperren, einliefern (to imprison), einweisen (to have someone enter an institution as a…)
Spanishencomendar (to entrust; to consign), comprometer, empalabrar (to pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or…), cometer (to do (something bad); to perpetrate – see also…)
Portuguesecomprometer (to pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or…), internar (to have someone enter an institution as a…), cometer (to do (something bad); to perpetrate – see also…)

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 commit come from?

Inherited from Middle English committen, itself borrowed from Latin committō (“to bring together, join, compare, commit (a wrong), incur, give in charge, etc.”), from com- (“together”) + mittō (“to send”). See mission.

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

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