comice

\kɔ.mis\

/\kɔ.mis\/ noun

The verdict

“comice” is uncommon French (frequency #84,646 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#84,646
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Assemblée du peuple dans la République romaine.

Corpus desk

Index FR-comice · comice · French

comice · rank #84,646 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #84,646
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH colonisées

Nearest frequency peer: colonisées (-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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « comice »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « comice » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for comice
PropertyValue
Headwordcomice
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ.mis\
Letters6
Frequency rank#84,646
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « comice » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).comicetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « colonisées » (#84,645), « comin » (#84,647), « cois » (#84,644). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « comice » est au #84,646. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

comice is uncommon French at frequency #84,646 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ.mis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for comice, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is comice, spelled C-O-M-I-C-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Assemblée du peuple dans la République romaine.
  2. 2
    Assemblée d'électeurs réunie pour élire.
  3. 3
    Réunion de professionnels pour l’essor de leur métier.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Le sénat conservait un intérêt fonctionnel important. Il avait en particulier gagné un rôle législatif à cause de la désuétude où étaient tombés les comices populaires.
  2. Quand on l'eut trouvé dans la foule des électeurs du palatinat de Sandomir, qu'on l'eut mis sur un char, traîné au milieu des comices, salué de génuflexions et de houras unanimes, il ne douta point que ce ne fût une raillerie, et que ses concitoyens ne se jouassent de lui.

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 "comice"?
"comice" is spelled C-O-M-I-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ.mis\.
What does "comice" mean?
As a noun, "comice" means: Assemblée du peuple dans la République romaine.
How do you pronounce "comice"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "comice" is \kɔ.mis\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "comice" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list