commit
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "commit", 6-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "commit" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "commit" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
commit is aEnglishverb. It means: To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto. Pronounced /kəˈmɪt/. It ranks #4,067 in English word frequency. Often confused with common and cosmic.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | commit |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /kəˈmɪt/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #4,067 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for commit is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /kəˈmɪt/. Corpus data places it at rank #4,067 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for commit, with forms such as "ccommit", "cmomit", and "comimt". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "common", "cosmic", "commute", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: 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. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is commit, spelled C-O-M-M-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.
- 2To imprison: to forcibly place in a jail.
- 3To forcibly evaluate and treat in a medical facility, particularly for presumed mental illness.
- 4To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
- 5To 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.)
- 6To make a set of changes permanent.
- 7To integrate new revisions into the public or master version of a file in a version control system.
- 8To enter into a contest; to match; often followed by with.
- 9To confound.
- 10To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate.
- 11To be committed or perpetrated; to take place; to occur.
Etymology
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.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccommit,cmomit,comimt,comit,committ,commti,ocmmit
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for commit
Misspelling Variants of "commit"
Frequency rank: #4,067 in English
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