Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

comess

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: comess
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Noise and confusion.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"As Jasmine told me emphatically, "facts" are knowledge -- of correct practices and their meanings -- and provide the antidote to the comess of mixed ways of knowing and of behaving."
"Somewhere in the comess, Beti had lost her headpiece."
"The seer man revealed that the "comess" (conflict, trouble, confusion) this man was experiencing was linked to cuckoldry (perhaps his own; this part of the story was left vague), explaining that the neighbors "had worked obeah” on him and his family, "put[tin] graveyard dirt and many other things in a buried heap" under the outside stairs."

Etymology

From Antillean Creole komès, from French commerce. Doublet of commerce.

Origin

Source language: French

Word Breakdown

Root: komès, commerce

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does comess mean?: Noise and confusion.
Where does comess come from?: It is traced to French.

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