come in
/ˌkʌm ˈɪn/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.77 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To enter.
verb
To arrive.
verb
To become relevant, applicable, or useful.
verb
To join or enter; to begin playing with a group.
Example Sentences
- "Please come in and look around."
- "Come in, it's cold outside."
- "That flight just came in."
- "The third stage of the plan is where Team B comes in."
- "1889, Thomas Huxley, in Popular Science Monthly; part of the "Agnosticism controversy", Agnosticism: A Rejoinder As I have shown, "infidel" merely means somebody who does not believe what you believe yourself, and therefore Dr. Wace has a perfect right to call, say, my old Egyptian donkey-driver, Nooleh, and myself, infidels, just as Nooleh and I have a right to call him an infidel. The ludicrous aspect of the thing comes in only when either of us demands that the two others should so label themselves."
- "Blueberries will be coming in next month."
Etymology
From Middle English com in, imperative form of Middle English incomen (“to come in; enter”), from Old English incuman (“to come in; enter”), from Proto-Germanic *inkwemaną (“to come in; enter”), equivalent to come + in. Compare Dutch kom in (“come in”), singular imperative form of inkomen (“to come in; enter”), German einkommen (“to come in; enter”). See also income, incoming.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌkʌm ˈɪn/
- British English: /ˌkʌm ˈɪn/