commet
\kɔ.mɛ\
The verdict
“commet” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,547. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,547
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de commettre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-commet · commet · French
commet · rank #13,547 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,547
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH commençons
Nearest frequency peer: commençons (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « commet »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cohérente
cohérente
86,457 corpus weight
- collectivem…
collectivement
86,456 corpus weight
- commençons
commençons
86,455 corpus weight
- commet
commet
86,454 corpus weight
- community
community
86,453 corpus weight
- confidentia…
confidentialité
86,452 corpus weight
What this shows « commet » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | commet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ.mɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #13,547 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « commet »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around commet (IPA \kɔ.mɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #13,547 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de commettre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for commet, with forms such as "ccommet", "cmomet", and "comemt". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "comte", "commu", "commun", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is commet, spelled C-O-M-M-E-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de commettre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how commet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un crime se commet : s’il y a flagrance, les inculpés sont emmenés au corps de garde voisin et mis dans ce cabanon nommé par le peuple violon, sans doute parce qu’on y fait de la musique : on y crie ou l’on y pleure.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccommet
- cmomet
- comemt
- commett
- ocmmet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of commet - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "commet", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).