comme
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | comme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adv |
| IPA | \kɔm\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #51 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1De même que ; ainsi que.
- 2Autant que.
- 3À quel point, combien.
- 4Par exemple.
- 5Presque, quasi.
- 6En qualité de ; en tant que.
- 7Il 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.
- 8Autant … comme : même sens que autant … que, comparatif.
- 9Comment, de quelle manière.
- 10Puisque, étant donné que, vu que, maintenant que.
- 11À la différence de, contrairement à
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccomme,cmome,comem,ocmme
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for comme
Misspelling Variants of "comme"
Frequency rank: #51 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our French index: