commitment
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "commitment", 10-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 "commitment" 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 "commitment" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
commitment is aEnglishnoun. It means: The act or an instance of committing, putting in charge, keeping, or trust, especially: Pronounced /kəˈmɪtmənt/. It ranks #3,416 in English word frequency. Often confused with commitments.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | commitment |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kəˈmɪtmənt/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #3,416 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for commitment is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /kəˈmɪtmənt/. Corpus data places it at rank #3,416 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for commitment, with forms such as "ccommitment", "cmomitment", and "comimtment". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "commitments", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From commit + -ment. 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 commitment, spelled C-O-M-M-I-T-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1The act or an instance of committing, putting in charge, keeping, or trust, especially:
- 2The act or an instance of committing, putting in charge, keeping, or trust, especially:
- 3Promise or agreement to do something in the future, especially
- 4Promise or agreement to do something in the future, especially:
- 5Being bound emotionally or intellectually to a course of action or to another person or persons.
- 6The trait of sincerity and focused purpose.
- 7Perpetration as in a crime or mistake.
- 8State of being pledged or engaged.
- 9The act of being locked away, such as in an institution for the mentally ill or in jail.
Etymology
From commit + -ment.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccommitment,cmomitment,comimtment,comitment,commimtent,commitemnt,commitmennt,commitmentt,commitmetn,commitmment,commitmnet,committment,commtiment,ocmmitment
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for commitment
Misspelling Variants of "commitment"
Frequency rank: #3,416 in English
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