comme

/\kɔm\/ adv

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#51

in French word usage

Misspellings

4

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

comme is anFrenchadv. It means: De même que ; ainsi que. Pronounced \kɔm\. It ranks #51 in French word frequency. Often confused with côte and core.

Key facts for comme
PropertyValue
Headwordcomme
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
IPA\kɔm\
Letters5
Frequency rank#51
Misspellings tracked4
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of comme in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for comme is 5 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔm\. Corpus data places it at rank #51 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for comme, with forms such as "ccomme", "cmome", and "comem". 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", "core", "como", 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 comme, spelled C-O-M-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    De même que ; ainsi que.
  2. 2
    Autant que.
  3. 3
    À quel point, combien.
  4. 4
    Par exemple.
  5. 5
    Presque, quasi.
  6. 6
    En qualité de ; en tant que.
  7. 7
    Il se joint avec certains verbes tels que considérer, regarder… pour marquer l’opinion que l’on a de quelqu’un ou de quelque chose, le jugement que l’on en porte.
  8. 8
    Autant … comme : même sens que autant … que, comparatif.
  9. 9
    Comment, de quelle manière.
  10. 10
    Puisque, étant donné que, vu que, maintenant que.
  11. 11
    À la différence de, contrairement à

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ccomme,cmome,comem,ocmme

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for comme

Misspelling Variants of "comme"

ccomme6cmome5comem5ocmme5
Misspelling Variants of "comme"

Frequency rank: #51 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "comme"?
"comme" is spelled C-O-M-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔm\.
What does "comme" mean?
As an adv, "comme" means: De même que ; ainsi que.
What words are commonly confused with "comme"?
"comme" is commonly confused with "côte", "core", "como". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "comme"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "comme" is \kɔm\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "comme" come from?
"comme" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.