coma
\kɔ.ma\
The verdict
“coma” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,824. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,824
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État somnolent avec abolition de la sensibilité et du mouvement volontaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coma · coma · French
coma · rank #8,824 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,824
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coloniale
Nearest frequency peer: coloniale (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « coma »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- clergé
clergé
91,180 corpus weight
- colin
colin
91,179 corpus weight
- coloniale
coloniale
91,178 corpus weight
- coma
coma
91,177 corpus weight
- confession
confession
91,176 corpus weight
- congés
congés
91,175 corpus weight
What this shows « coma » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | coma |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.ma\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #8,824 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « coma »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around coma (IPA \kɔ.ma\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,824 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "État somnolent avec abolition de la sensibilité et du mouvement volontaire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for coma, with forms such as "ccoma", "cmoa", and "coam". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "con", "cou", "coq", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is coma, spelled C-O-M-A.
Definition
- 1État somnolent avec abolition de la sensibilité et du mouvement volontaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how coma appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ma mère, alarmée d’une fièvre qui depuis quelque temps ne me quittait pas, et à laquelle mon inaction corporelle donnait les symptômes du coma, m’enleva du collége en quatre ou cinq heures.
Dans certains cas, on observe en outre de la céphalalgie, de la dyspnée, du coma, symptômes qui sont presque toujours sous la dépendance de l'urémie occasionnée par la néphrite.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccoma
- cmoa
- coam
- comma
- ocma
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of coma - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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.
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).