comma
\kɔ.ma\
The verdict
“comma” is uncommon French (frequency #61,410 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,410
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faible quantité qui s’exprime par une fraction arithmétique, généralement rationnelle, dont la valeur est relativement proche de l’unité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-comma · comma · French
comma · rank #61,410 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,410
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH combattra
Nearest frequency peer: combattra (-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 « comma »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Colgate
Colgate
38,594 corpus weight
- colporteurs
colporteurs
38,593 corpus weight
- combattra
combattra
38,592 corpus weight
- comma
comma
38,591 corpus weight
- commedia
commedia
38,590 corpus weight
- commémorati…
commémoratifs
38,589 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « comma » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | comma |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.ma\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #61,410 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « comma » en français
Rare enough to double-check
comma is uncommon French at frequency #61,410 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ.ma\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for comma in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is comma, spelled C-O-M-M-A.
Definition
- 1Faible quantité qui s’exprime par une fraction arithmétique, généralement rationnelle, dont la valeur est relativement proche de l’unité.
- 2Huitième ou neuvième partie d’un ton, à peu près la moitié d’un quart de ton.
- 3Ancien nom du deux-points.
- 4Papillon de jour de la famille des hespéridés (Hesperiidae), dont le dos les ailes sont de couleur brun-orange avec des points blancs nombreux sous les postérieures.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how comma appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le comma enharmonique des musicologues a une valeur de 128/125.
Le comma syntonique et le comma pythagoricien des musicologues font respectivement, 81/80 et 3¹²/2¹⁹.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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.
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