comique

\kɔ.mik\

/\kɔ.mik\/ adj

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The verdict

“comique” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,173. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,173
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
14
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a rapport à la comédie.

Corpus desk

Index FR-comique · comique · French

comique · rank #6,173 · 9 variants · 14 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,173
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH coco

Nearest frequency peer: coco (-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 « comique »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « comique » 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).

comique vs coque
71% similar
comique vs comité
57% similar
comique vs crique
71% similar

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

Key facts for comique
PropertyValue
Headwordcomique
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\kɔ.mik\
Letters7
Frequency rank#6,173
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs14
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « comique »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.comiquese 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 « coco » (#6,172), « commerçants » (#6,174), « chou » (#6,171). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « comique » est au #6,173. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around comique (IPA \kɔ.mik\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #6,173 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for comique, with forms such as "ccomique", "cmoique", and "coimque". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "coque", "comité", "crique", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is comique, spelled C-O-M-I-Q-U-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui a rapport à la comédie.
  2. 2
    Qui est propre à faire rire.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Le genre comique.
  2. Troupe comique : Troupe de comédiens.

Synonyms

amusantbidonnantbouffonbouffonesqueboyautantburlesqueclownesquecocassecorneculdésopilantdrolatiquedrôledrôletdrôlissimefacétieuxfunambulesquegaguesquegrotesquehilaranthumoristiqueloufoquemarrantpoilantrigolorisiblesaugrenutordantubuesque

This word in other languages

comic(English)cómico(Español)drollig(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccomique
  • cmoique
  • coimque
  • comiqeu
  • comiqque
  • comiuqe
  • commique
  • comqiue
  • ocmique

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of comique - 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.

ccomique1cmoique2coimque2comiqeu2comiqque1comiuqe2commique1comqiue2
Edit distance from "comique"

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 "comique"?
"comique" is spelled C-O-M-I-Q-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ.mik\.
What does "comique" mean?
As an adjective, "comique" means: Qui a rapport à la comédie.
What words are commonly confused with "comique"?
"comique" is commonly confused with "coque", "comité", "crique". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "comique"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "comique" is \kɔ.mik\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "comique" come from?
"comique" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

compare#6,175calculs#6,168deviens#6,181amusant#6,163

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

débute9 variantséteint9 variantsIllusion9 variantsurgent9 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list