# committal

> English word · Noun · IPA /kəˈmɪtəl/ · frequency rank #44,700

## Definitions
1. The act of entrusting something to someone.
2. The act of committing someone to confinement; an order for someone's imprisonment.
3. The act of perpetrating an offence.
4. The act of committing a body to the grave at a burial or to the furnace at a cremation.

## Etymology
From commit + -al.

## Easily confused with
- **committee** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/committal-vs-committee)
- **committed** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/committal-vs-committed)

## Common misspellings (10)
`ccommittal`, `cmomittal`, `comimttal`, `comittal`, `commital`, `commitatl`, `committall`, `committla`, `commtital`, `ocmmittal`

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