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/ˈkɑmɛnt/
nounverb

COMMENT meaning: a spoken or written remark, the act of commenting, or an explanatory note ignored by code execution.

NWL Collins ENABLE

Noun 4 meanings

  1. A spoken or written remark.

    “I have no comment on that.”

  2. The act of commenting.

  3. The part of a sentence that provides new information regarding the current theme.

  4. A remark embedded in source code in such a way that it will be ignored by the compiler or interpreter, typically to help people to understand the code.

Verb 4 meanings

  1. To remark.

  2. To make remarks or notes; to express a view regarding.

    “He commented about your proposal.”

  3. To insert comments into (source code).

    “I wish I'd commented this complicated algorithm back when I remembered how it worked.”

  4. To comment out (code); to disable by converting into a comment.

Definitions: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA) via Kaikki/Wiktextract

Where it comes from

Etymology

From Middle English coment, comment, from Old French coment (“commentary”), from Late Latin commentum (“comment, interpretation”), from Classical Latin commentum (“invention, fabrication”).

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COMMENT is an everyday seven-letter word with several related senses: a spoken or written remark, the act of commenting, and an explanatory note in source code. It scores 13 points before board bonuses, and it has no anagrams in the game dictionaries, and its frequency rank is 1,350 among 33,788 seven-letter words.

COMMENT at a glance

  • COMMENT appears in Collins, NWL2023, and ENABLE.
  • The seven-letter word scores 13 points in Scrabble.
  • C and the two Ms contribute 9 of those points.
  • COMMEND is its sole one-letter neighbour.
  • COMMENT has no anagrams in the available word lists.

What does COMMENT mean?

COMMENT can name a remark spoken aloud or written down, which is the sense most readers meet first. It also names the act of making such remarks. The word’s frequency count is 11,561, matching its status as ordinary vocabulary rather than a specialist spelling.

In computing, a comment is text embedded in source code for people to read; a compiler or interpreter ignores it. That gives COMMENT a second familiar home outside conversation and writing. The sentence-structure sense is narrower: a comment supplies new information about the current theme.

COMMENT's score, anagrams, and rhymes

Scrabble's tile values explain the 13-point total: C is 3, each M is 3, and O, E, N, and T are 1 apiece. The two Ms alone make 6 points, while C adds another 3. No premium square is included, so a double-letter or triple-word placement changes the turn's total.

The seven letters sort to CEMMNOT, but rearranging them does not produce another listed word. That zero-anagram result is a practical warning: COMMENT looks flexible because it repeats M, yet the rack has no alternate play in the checked lists. Its only one-letter neighbour is COMMEND, which swaps the final T for D.

For sound rather than spelling, COMMENT's rhyme family shares the final ent sound and includes moment, current, event, and present. The full set has 12 entries, including longer words such as government and development. Rhyme matches are not anagrams: their letters and lengths differ, so use this group for wordplay, not rack solving.

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Questions people ask

Is COMMENT a valid Scrabble word?
Yes. COMMENT appears in the Collins and NWL2023 lists, and it is worth 13 points before premium squares. The tile sum comes from C and both Ms at 3 points each, plus four 1-point letters. Use the word list assigned to your game.
Does COMMENT have any anagrams?
No listed anagrams are formed from C, E, M, M, N, O, and T. The repeated M can make rearrangement seem promising, but the checked lexicons return none. COMMEND is close in spelling, yet it is not an anagram: it replaces T with D.
What does comment mean in programming?
In programming, a comment is text placed in source code for people to read, not an instruction for the computer to execute. COMMENT also means a spoken or written remark, so the coding sense extends the same idea of an explanatory note.

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