committee
/kəˈmɪt.i/noun
committee is spelled C-O-M-M-I-T-T-E-E. The wrong spelling people search most is commitee: about 640 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 15 of all searches for the word. Committee is a noun meaning “A body of one or more persons convened for the accomplishment of some specific purpose, typically with formal…”. The plural of committee is committees.
How many letters and syllables are in committee?
| Letters | 9: C-O-M-M-I-T-T-E-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 102 times per million words; the 1,048th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 3; the most searched, commitee, about 640 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell committee?
Committee is spelled C-O-M-M-I-T-T-E-E. 3 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for committee in either form.
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 committee?
Committee appears 102 times per million words in written English, the 1,048th 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 committee?
- US /kəˈmɪt.i/
- /ˈkə.mɪ.ʈi/
- [kɐ.mɪ̈.ʈiˑ]
Committee has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-committee.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-commitee2.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with committee?
5 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as committee from its last stressed vowel (/ɪti/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of committee
- committees plural
- cttee
- cmte
- cmte.
- com
- com.
- comm
- comm.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does committee mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A body of one or more persons convened for the accomplishment of some specific purpose, typically with formal protocols.
My uncle is on the committee.
- 2
archaicA guardian; someone in charge of another person deemed to be unable to look after themselves.
- 3
Alternative form of kameti.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate committee?
Wiktionary records 5 abbreviations of committee: Comm., cmte, com, comm, cttee.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Committee in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense group of persons convened for the accomplishment of some specific purpose:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | comité, commission |
| German | Komitee, Ausschuss, Kommission |
| Portuguese | comité, comitê, comissão |
| Spanish | comité |
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 committee come from?
From commit + -ee, or else revival of Anglo-Norman commite, past participle of commettre (“to commit”), from Latin committere, from con- (“with”) + mittere (“to send”). The OED3 prefers the first etymology.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).