comité
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,088
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
comité is aFrenchnoun. It means: Réunion de personnes commises par un groupement (assemblée, société, syndicat, etc.) pour l’examen et la préparation de certaines affaires ou pour assurer la marche de toutes les affaires concernan... Pronounced \kɔ.mi.te\. It ranks #1,088 in French word frequency. Often confused with côte and comme.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | comité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.mi.te\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,088 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for comité is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.mi.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,088 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for comité, with forms such as "ccomité", "cmoité", and "coimté". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "côte", "comme", "comte", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is comité, spelled C-O-M-I-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Réunion de personnes commises par un groupement (assemblée, société, syndicat, etc.) pour l’examen et la préparation de certaines affaires ou pour assurer la marche de toutes les affaires concernant ce groupement.
- 2Organisation sportive de niveau intermédiaire entre les ski-clubs et la Fédération française de ski.
- 3Groupe restreint à un petit nombre de personnes entre lesquelles règne ordinairement une certaine familiarité.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccomité,cmoité,coimté,comite,comitté,comiét,commité,comtié,ocmité
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "comité"
Frequency rank: #1,088 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our French index: