com

\kɔm\

/\kɔm\/ noun

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The verdict

“com” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #3,446) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#3,446
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Communication.

Corpus desk

Index FR-com · com · French

com · rank #3,446 · 0 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #3,446
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH commerciale

Nearest frequency peer: commerciale (+1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Voisins de fréquence du confusable « com »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « com » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

com vs CV
0% similar
com vs Ct
0% similar
com vs CP
0% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for com
PropertyValue
Headwordcom
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔm\
Letters3
Frequency rank#3,446
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « com »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).comse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « commerciale » (#3,447), « charme » (#3,444), « capables » (#3,443). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « com » est au #3,446. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for com is neighbouring look-alikes ("CV", "Ct", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \kɔm\. Frequency #3,446 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Communication.".

com doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CV", "Ct", "CP", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is com, spelled C-O-M.

Definition

  1. 1
    Communication.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how com appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La politique du gouvernement est souvent réduite aujourd’hui à de la com.
  2. Ces clips de com pour le gouvernement énervent particulièrement les internautes.

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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "com"?
"com" is spelled C-O-M. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔm\.
What does "com" mean?
As a noun, "com" means: Communication.
What words are commonly confused with "com"?
"com" is commonly confused with "CV", "Ct", "CP". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "com"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "com" is \kɔm\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "com" come from?
"com" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "com", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

hey#3,461kim#3,466mac#3,470mit#3,474

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list