# complete

> English word · Verb · IPA /kəmˈpliːt/ · frequency rank #825

## Definitions
1. To finish; to make done; to reach the end.
2. To make whole or entire.
3. To call from the small blind in an unraised pot.

## Etymology
From Middle English compleet (“full, complete”), borrowed from Old French complet or Latin completus, past participle of compleō (“I fill up, I complete”) (whence also complement, compliment), from com- + pleō (“I fill, I fulfill”) (whence also deplete, replete, plenty), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”) (English full).

## Easily confused with
- **complex** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/complete-vs-complex)
- **compute** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/complete-vs-compute)
- **completed** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/complete-vs-completed)
- **completes** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/complete-vs-completes)
- **completely** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/complete-vs-completely)
- **compete** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/compete-vs-complete)
- **competed** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/competed-vs-complete)
- **competes** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/competes-vs-complete)

## Common misspellings (12)
`ccomplete`, `cmoplete`, `comlpete`, `commplete`, `compelte`, `compleet`, `complette`, `compllete`, `compltee`, `compplete`, `copmlete`, `ocmplete`

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