comestible

\kɔ.mɛs.tibl\

/\kɔ.mɛs.tibl\/ adj

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The verdict

“comestible” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,106. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#28,106
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
15
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui peut servir d’aliment à l’humain, que l’on peut consommer sans se blesser ni s’intoxiquer.

Corpus desk

Index FR-comestible · comestible · French

comestible · rank #28,106 · 15 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #28,106
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 15 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH comblée

Nearest frequency peer: comblée (-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 « comestible »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « comestible » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

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).

comestible vs compatible
80% similar
comestible vs comestibles
91% similar
comestible vs combustible
82% similar

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

Key facts for comestible
PropertyValue
Headwordcomestible
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\kɔ.mɛs.tibl\
Letters10
Frequency rank#28,106
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « comestible »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.comestiblese place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « comblée » (#28,105), « concordance » (#28,107), « colorants » (#28,104). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « comestible » est au #28,106. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 15 spelling variants around comestible (IPA \kɔ.mɛs.tibl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #28,106 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for comestible, with forms such as "ccomestible", "cmoestible", and "coemstible". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "compatible", "comestibles", "combustible", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is comestible, spelled C-O-M-E-S-T-I-B-L-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui peut servir d’aliment à l’humain, que l’on peut consommer sans se blesser ni s’intoxiquer.
  2. 2
    Apte à être sexuellement consommé.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Notre vieille amie, murée dans sa fâcherie, mélangea allégrement russules et lactaires, clitocybes et coprins, et même quelques amanites — parfaitement comestibles celles-là, et même savoureuses, comme le sont la plupart des représentants de cette famille.
  2. Elle me fixait de son œil large de vache sacrée. Elle appartenait à l’espèce pour laquelle je sais que je suis comestible.

Synonyms

potable

Antonyms

immangeableincomestiblevénéneuxtoxique

This word in other languages

comestible(English)comestible(Español)essbar(Deutsch)comestível(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccomestible
  • cmoestible
  • coemstible
  • comesitble
  • comesstible
  • comestbile
  • comestibble
  • comestibel
  • comestiblle
  • comestilbe
  • comesttible
  • cometsible
  • commestible
  • comsetible
  • ocmestible

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of comestible - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

ccomestible1cmoestible2coemstible2comesitble2comesstible1comestbile2comestibble1comestibel2
Edit distance from "comestible"

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 "comestible"?
"comestible" is spelled C-O-M-E-S-T-I-B-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ.mɛs.tibl\.
What does "comestible" mean?
As an adjective, "comestible" means: Qui peut servir d’aliment à l’humain, que l’on peut consommer sans se blesser ni s’intoxiquer.
What words are commonly confused with "comestible"?
"comestible" is commonly confused with "compatible", "comestibles", "combustible". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "comestible"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "comestible" is \kɔ.mɛs.tibl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "comestible" come from?
"comestible" 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 "comestible", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

confisquer#28,108contestent#28,115carrefours#28,091capricieux#28,089

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).

corresponde15 variantsbienfaiteur15 variantsespéraient15 variantsfrontalier15 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list