# commit

> English word · Verb · IPA /kəˈmɪt/ · frequency rank #4,067

## Definitions
1. To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.
2. To imprison: to forcibly place in a jail.
3. To forcibly evaluate and treat in a medical facility, particularly for presumed mental illness.
4. To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
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.)
6. To make a set of changes permanent.
7. To integrate new revisions into the public or master version of a file in a version control system.
8. To enter into a contest; to match; often followed by with.
9. To confound.
10. To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate.
11. To 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.

## Easily confused with
- **common** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/commit-vs-common)
- **cosmic** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/commit-vs-cosmic)
- **commute** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/commit-vs-commute)
- **commits** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/commit-vs-commits)
- **comm** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/comm-vs-commit)
- **comic** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/comic-vs-commit)
- **comet** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/comet-vs-commit)
- **comma** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/comma-vs-commit)
- **combat** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/combat-vs-commit)
- **commie** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/commie-vs-commit)
- **comment** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/comment-vs-commit)
- **comming** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/comming-vs-commit)

## Common misspellings (7)
`ccommit`, `cmomit`, `comimt`, `comit`, `committ`, `commti`, `ocmmit`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/commit