comentar

/[komẽn̪ˈt̪aɾ]/ verb

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,185

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

comentar is aSpanishverb. It means: Explicar y declarar el contenido de un texto de modo que pueda entenderse mejor o con más facilidad. Pronounced [komẽn̪ˈt̪aɾ]. It ranks #5,185 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with contar and cometa.

Key facts for comentar
PropertyValue
Headwordcomentar
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechVerb
IPA[komẽn̪ˈt̪aɾ]
Letters8
Frequency rank#5,185
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of comentar in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for comentar is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [komẽn̪ˈt̪aɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,185 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for comentar, with forms such as "ccomentar", "cmoentar", and "coemntar". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "contar", "cometa", "cometer", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is comentar, spelled C-O-M-E-N-T-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Explicar y declarar el contenido de un texto de modo que pueda entenderse mejor o con más facilidad.
  2. 2
    Hacer anotaciones, juicios, observaciones, consideraciones o comentarios; dar opiniones o impresiones sobre algo.
  3. 3
    En una archivo de código fuente, configuración o directivas, agregar marcas de comentarios a una o varias líneas para que no sean tenidas en cuenta por el compilador o intérprete de comandos.

Antonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ccomentar,cmoentar,coemntar,comenatr,comenntar,comentarr,comentra,comenttar,cometnar,commentar,comnetar,ocmentar

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for comentar

Misspelling Variants of "comentar"

ccomentar9cmoentar8coemntar8comenatr8comenntar9comentarr9comentra8comenttar9
Misspelling Variants of "comentar"

Frequency rank: #5,185 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "comentar"?
"comentar" is spelled C-O-M-E-N-T-A-R. The IPA pronunciation is [komẽn̪ˈt̪aɾ].
What does "comentar" mean?
As a verb, "comentar" means: Explicar y declarar el contenido de un texto de modo que pueda entenderse mejor o con más facilidad.
What words are commonly confused with "comentar"?
"comentar" is commonly confused with "contar", "cometa", "cometer". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "comentar"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "comentar" is [komẽn̪ˈt̪aɾ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "comentar" come from?
"comentar" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.