come back
\kɔm bak\
The verdict
“come back” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Retour, en particulier quand il s’agit d’un évènement, d’une réapparition.
Corpus desk
Index FR-come-back · come back · French
come back · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | come back |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔm bak\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « come back » en français
Rare enough to double-check
come back is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔm bak\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Retour, en particulier quand il s’agit d’un évènement, d’une réapparition.".
come back doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is come back, spelled C-O-M-E- -B-A-C-K.
Definition
- 1Retour, en particulier quand il s’agit d’un évènement, d’une réapparition.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how come back appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est le come-back de nos jeux d’enfants.
Il fait son come-back sur la scène.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.