comment

/\kɔ.mɑ̃\/ adv

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#143

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

comment is anFrenchadv. It means: De quelle manière ; de quelle sorte ; par quel procédé. Pronounced \kɔ.mɑ̃\. It ranks #143 in French word frequency. Often confused with commun and commet.

Key facts for comment
PropertyValue
Headwordcomment
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
IPA\kɔ.mɑ̃\
Letters7
Frequency rank#143
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for comment is 7 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #143 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.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 comment, with forms such as "ccomment", "cmoment", and "comemnt". 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, "commun", "commet", "common", 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 comment, spelled C-O-M-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    De quelle manière ; de quelle sorte ; par quel procédé.
  2. 2
    Pourquoi, d’où vient que ?
  3. 3
    Combien.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ccomment,cmoment,comemnt,coment,commennt,commentt,commetn,commnet,ocmment

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for comment

Misspelling Variants of "comment"

ccomment8cmoment7comemnt7coment6commennt8commentt8commetn7commnet7
Misspelling Variants of "comment"

Frequency rank: #143 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "comment"?
"comment" is spelled C-O-M-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ.mɑ̃\.
What does "comment" mean?
As an adv, "comment" means: De quelle manière ; de quelle sorte ; par quel procédé.
What words are commonly confused with "comment"?
"comment" is commonly confused with "commun", "commet", "common". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "comment"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "comment" is \kɔ.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "comment" come from?
"comment" 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.