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comune

/kəˈmuːneɪ/noun

comune is spelled C-O-M-U-N-E: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 125,655th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, comune means “the smallest civil administrative unit in Italy, a municipality in Italy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of comune is comuni or comunes.

How many letters and syllables are in comune?

Letters6: C-O-M-U-N-E
In writingabout once in every 17 million words; the 125,655th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is comune?

Comune appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 125,655th 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 comune?

  • /kəˈmuːneɪ/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-comune.oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of comune

  • comuni plural
  • comunes plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does comune mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    the smallest civil administrative unit in Italy, a municipality in Italy

  2. 2

    civil administrative unit in Switzerland, a municipality in Switzerland

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does comune come from?

Borrowed from Italian comune. Doublet of commune.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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