comevscommetWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: come is a noun, commet is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“come” is a noun and “commet” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#7,944
“come” frequency rank
#13,547
“commet” frequency rank
21491
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature come commet
Definition Chevelure. Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de commettre.

Letter map: come vs commet

Shared letters muted; letters that set come and commet apart highlighted. Shared run: 4.

4 ch
come
6 ch
commet

Role in the sentence - come and commet

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: come is anoun and commetaverb. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 21491, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

come is recorded at frequency rank #7,944, classified as anoun. commet is at rank #13,547, tagged as averb, pronounced \kɔ.mɛ\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 21491, this pair ranks #362,911 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of come vs commet

Shared letters: cemo. Private to "come": -. Private to "commet": t.

"come" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "commet" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • comeccome · cmoe · coem · ocme
  • commetccommet · cmomet · comemt · commett · ocmmet

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "come" for "commet" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "come" is a noun and "commet" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "come" or "commet"?
"come" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #7,944 in our French list, against #13,547 for "commet". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "come" and "commet". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "come" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "commet" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #362,911 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "come" and "commet" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "commère vs commet". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #362,911 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list