comma
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#61,410
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
comma is aFrenchnoun. It means: Faible quantité qui s’exprime par une fraction arithmétique, généralement rationnelle, dont la valeur est relativement proche de l’unité. Pronounced \kɔ.ma\.
| 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) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for comma is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.ma\. Corpus data places it at rank #61,410 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for comma in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 comma, spelled C-O-M-M-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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.
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Frequency rank: #61,410 in French
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