commets
\kɔ.mɛ\
The verdict
“commets” is uncommon French (frequency #51,364 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,364
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de commettre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-commets · commets · French
commets · rank #51,364 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,364
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH combattantes
Nearest frequency peer: combattantes (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « commets »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Clotaire
Clotaire
48,640 corpus weight
- colporteur
colporteur
48,639 corpus weight
- combattantes
combattantes
48,638 corpus weight
- commets
commets
48,637 corpus weight
- communicati…
communicative
48,636 corpus weight
- communiquait
communiquait
48,635 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « commets » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | commets |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ.mɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,364 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « commets » en français
Rare enough to double-check
commets is uncommon French at frequency #51,364 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ.mɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for commets, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is commets, spelled C-O-M-M-E-T-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de commettre.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de commettre.
- 3Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de commettre.
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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