comprehensive
/ˌkɒm.pɹɪˈhɛn.sɪv/
"comprehensive" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“comprehensive” is a regularly-used English word, ranked #3,868 in English word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #3,868
- frequency rank, English
- 13
- letters
- 20
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Broadly or completely covering; including a large proportion of something.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | comprehensive |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˌkɒm.pɹɪˈhɛn.sɪv/ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #3,868 |
| Misspellings tracked | 20 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “comprehensive” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for comprehensive is 13 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˌkɒm.pɹɪˈhɛn.sɪv/. Corpus data places it at rank #3,868 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Broadly or completely covering; including a large proportion of something.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 20 likely wrong-spelling variants for comprehensive, with forms such as "ccomprehensive", "cmoprehensive", and "commprehensive". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "comprehensively", "comprehension", "comprehensible", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from late Middle French compréhensif, from Late Latin comprehēnsīvus, from Latin comprehendō. The correct English form is comprehensive, spelled C-O-M-P-R-E-H-E-N-S-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Broadly or completely covering; including a large proportion of something.
Etymology
Borrowed from late Middle French compréhensif, from Late Latin comprehēnsīvus, from Latin comprehendō.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccomprehensive,cmoprehensive,commprehensive,comperhensive,compprehensive,compreehnsive,comprehenisve,comprehennsive,comprehensiev,comprehensivve,comprehenssive,comprehensvie,comprehesnive,comprehhensive,comprehnesive,comprheensive,comprrehensive,comrpehensive,copmrehensive,ocmprehensive
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of comprehensive - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “comprehensive”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-O-M-P-R-E-H-E-N-S-I-V-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˌkɒm.pɹɪˈhɛn.sɪv/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “comprehensively” - see the side-by-side comparison. comprehensive vs comprehensively
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.