comfit

1. 1.

   candy containing a fruit or nut

   Broadersweet

1. 1.

   make into a confection

   “This medicine is home-confected”

   Synonymsconfectconfection

   Broaderassemble

Other forms of comfit

plural

comfits·

past tense

comfitted·

present participle

comfitting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about comfit

What does comfit mean?

comfit means "candy containing a fruit or nut". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in comfit?

comfit has 2 syllables: com-fit. The stress falls on "com".

What is another word for comfit?

Close synonyms include confect, confection. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is comfit a common word?

comfit is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.