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Definition: Comfit |
ComfitNoun1. Candy containing a fruit or nut. Verb1. Prepare from ingredients: "This medicine is home-confected". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "comfit" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references) |
Synonyms: ComfitSynonyms: confect (v), confection (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Sweetness | Sugar, syrup, treacle, molasses, honey, manna; confection, confectionary; sweets, grocery, conserve, preserve, confiture, jam, julep; sugar-candy, sugar-plum; licorice, marmalade, plum, lollipop, bonbon, jujube, comfit, sweetmeat; apple butter, caramel, damson, glucose; maple sirup, maple syrup, maple sugar; mithai, sorghum, taffy. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Comfit |
| English words defined with "comfit": Comfiture, Confit. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "comfit": Comfiture, Confetti. (references) |
Expression using "comfit": Kissing comfit. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
comfit | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "comfit"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | fruta në sheqer (sweetmeats). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فاكهة مسكرة مجففة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | захаросани ядки (sweetmeats), захаросани плодове (candied fruits, sweetmeats), бонбон (bonbon, candy, confection, peach, plum, sweet, sweetmeat, sweety). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | cukr (sugar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Konfekt (confection, confectionery, sweets). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ζαχαρωτό (bonbon, candy, sugarplum, sweetmeat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | cukorka (candy, goodies, lollipop, sucks, sugar-plum, sweet, sweetie, sweetmeat, sweets). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | confetto (bonbon, bon-bon, candy, sugared almond), candido (candid, freehearted, ingenuous, innocent, pure, snow white, snowy, stainless, white). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | miljan (bonbon, confection). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | omfitcay confeito (confection, kiss), frutas cristalizadas (crystallised fruits), doce (bland, candy, confection, confectionery, dulcet, gentle, honeyed, junket, kiss, mellifluent, mellifluous, mild, nicy, polite, soft, sugar, sugary, sweet, tender), bombom (bon-bon, chocolate, goody, sugarplum, sweetie, sweetmeat, sweety). (various references) bomboanã (confectionery, drop, Goody, suck, sweet, sweetmeat, sweety). (various references) конфета (bon-bon, cachou, candy, candy bar, goody goody, piece of candy, sweet, sweetmeat). (various references) golosina (candy, confectionery, dainty, Goody, something sweet, tidbit, treat, tuck). (various references) bränd mandel (praline). (various references) fındıklı şekerleme, bonbon (boiled sweet, bonbon, candy, confection, sugarplum, taffy). (various references) зацукровані фрукти (sweetmeats). (various references) mứt quả (compote), kẹo trứng chim, kẹo hạnh nhân (hardbake). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "comfit": comfits. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "comfit": discomfit. (additional references) | |
Words containing "comfit": discomfited, discomfiting, discomfits, discomfiture, discomfitures. (additional references) | |
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"Comfit" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cenfrith, cilfit, coeffic, cofit, cogfit, Comair, comfar, comfect, comfirt, comish, comit, comitt, Comsit, comtist, Confait, confi, confict, conit, Corfiot, corfit, Homfirth, kumfi. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-f-i-m-o-t" | |
-1 letter: motif. | |
-2 letters: coft, coif, fico, foci, omit, otic. | |
-3 letters: cot, fit, moc, mot, oft, tic, tom. | |
-4 letters: if, it, mi, mo, of, om, ti, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-f-i-m-o-t" | |
+1 letter: comfits, motific. | |
+2 letters: comfiest. | |
+3 letters: discomfit. | |
+4 letters: cafetorium, comforting, conformist, conformity, discomfits, discomfort, multifocal, omnificent. | |
+5 letters: cafetoriums, confinement, conformists, discomfited, discomforts, formalistic, forthcoming, informatics, malefaction, malfunction, metafiction, misfunction, multifactor, tumefaction. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Expressions | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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