comparison: meaning and words from its letters
10 letters · 16 letter points · starts with C · ends with N
Meaning of comparison
noun
- countable, uncountable
The act of comparing or the state or process of being compared.
Example: to bring a thing into comparison with another
- countable, uncountable
An evaluation of the similarities and differences of one or more things relative to some other or each other.
Example: He made a careful comparison of the available products before buying anything.
- countable, uncountable
With a negation, the state of being similar or alike.
Example: There really is no comparison between the performance of today's computers and those of a decade ago.
- countable, uncountable
A feature in the morphology or syntax of some languages whereby adjectives and adverbs are inflected to indicate the relative degree of the property they define exhibited by the word or phrase they modify or describe.
Example: In English, adjectives and adverbs have three forms when making a comparison: the plain form "hot", the comparative form "hotter", and the superlative form "hottest".
Listed forms: comparisons.
Source: Wiktionary — comparison.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for comparison.
noun
the act of examining resemblances
noun
qualities that are comparable
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is comparison in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of comparison
C(3) + O(1) + M(3) + P(3) + A(1) + R(1) + I(1) + S(1) + O(1) + N(1) = 16 points.
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Anagrams of comparison
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from comparison
427 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in comparison. Showing up to 24, longest first.