comen
[ˈkomẽn]
The verdict
“comen” is a regularly-used Spanish word, ranked #6,155 in Spanish word frequency and used as a verb.
- #6,155
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5
- letters
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de comer o de comerse.
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 | comen |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈkomẽn] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #6,155 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “comen” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for comen is 5 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkomẽn]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,155 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de comer o de comerse.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for comen, with forms such as "ccomen", "cmoen", and "coemn". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "con", "cómo", "comí", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is comen, spelled C-O-M-E-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de comer o de comerse.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccomen,cmoen,coemn,comenn,commen,comne,ocmen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of comen - 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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “comen”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-O-M-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈkomẽn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “con” - see the side-by-side comparison. comen vs con
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish 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.