complete
com·plete/kəmˈpliːt/verb, adjective, noun
complete is spelled C-O-M-P-L-E-T-E, 2 syllables: com·plete. The wrong spelling people search most is compleat: about 550 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 17 of all searches for the word. Complete is a verb meaning “To finish; to make done; to reach the end”.
How many letters and syllables are in complete?
| Letters | 8: C-O-M-P-L-E-T-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: com·plete |
| In writing | 126 times per million words; the 831st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, compleat, about 550 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 complete?
Complete is spelled C-O-M-P-L-E-T-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 17 of the searches for complete 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 complete?
Complete appears 126 times per million words in written English, the 831st 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 complete?
- UK /kəmˈpliːt/
- UK /kɒmˈpliːt/
- US /kəmˈpliːt/
Complete has 2 syllables, split com·plete in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-complete.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with complete?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as complete from its last stressed vowel (/it/):
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 complete
- completes present, singular, he/she/it, plural
- completing participle, present
- completed participle, past, singular, he/she/it, plural
- more complete comparative
- completer comparative
- most complete superlative
- completest superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does complete mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To finish; to make done; to reach the end.
He completed the assignment on time.
- 2
To make whole or entire.
The last chapter completes the book nicely.
- 3
To call from the small blind in an unraised pot.
- 4
informalto accomplish every significant achievement within a field
adjective
- 1
With all parts included; with nothing missing; full.
My life will be complete once I buy this new television.
- 2
Finished; ended; concluded; completed.
When your homework is complete, you can go and play with Martin.
- 3
Generic intensifier.
He is a complete bastard!
- 4
In which every Cauchy sequence converges to a point within the space.
- 5
Complete as a topological group with respect to its m-adic topology, where m is its unique maximal idea.
- 6
In which every set with a lower bound has a greatest lower bound.
- 7
In which all small limits exist.
- 8
In which every semantically valid well-formed formula is provable.
noun
- 1
A completed survey.
“If SSI says we're going to get two completes an hour, the sample will yield two Qualifieds to do the survey with us.”
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate complete?
Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of complete: CIB, complt..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Complete in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | accomplir, terminer, achever , compléter , complet, complète |
| German | beenden, fertigstellen, fertigmachen , komplettieren, ergänzen, vervollständigen |
| Portuguese | terminar, acabar, concluir , completar, inteirar , completo |
| Spanish | completar, cabalar, acabalar, cabalear , completo |
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 complete come from?
From Middle English compleet (“full, complete”), borrowed from Old French complet or Latin completus, past participle of compleō (“to fill up, to complete”) (whence also complement, compliment), from com- + pleō (“to fill, to fulfill”) (whence also deplete, replete, plenty), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”) (English full).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).