comité
[komiˈt̪e]
The verdict
“comité” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #1,670. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,670
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 77,812
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Grupo reducido de personas que se encargan de tratar asuntos en nombre de un grupo mayor.
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 | comité |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [komiˈt̪e] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,670 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “comité” sits in Spanish frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around comité (IPA [komiˈt̪e]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,670 among 77,812 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for comité, with forms such as "ccomité", "cmoité", and "coimté". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "corte", "Conte", "comte", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is comité, spelled C-O-M-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Grupo reducido de personas que se encargan de tratar asuntos en nombre de un grupo mayor.
- 2En particular, comité₁ abocado a tareas políticas.
- 3Se dice del órgano en el interior de un partido político, que se encarga de actividades que lo incumben.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccomité
- cmoité
- coimté
- comitté
- comiét
- commité
- comtié
- ocmité
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of comité - 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 “comité”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-O-M-I-T-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [komiˈt̪e] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “corte” - see the side-by-side comparison. comité vs corte
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Same frequency band
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.