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"comfort" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often solace (6 letters).
Definitions
lessen pain or discomfort; alleviate
Word origin
From Middle English comfort, from Old French cunfort, confort, from the stem of Late Latin confortō. It replaced Old English frofor, Middle English frovre.
Used in a sentence
“Sleep in comfort with our new mattress.”
“How often is the comfort of a whole family abridged by some trifling circumstance, that ought not to have made a visible impression!”
“I can make money from the comfort of my sofa / So much drive, now I gotta get a chauffeur”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Ease after stress”7 letters
02“Feeling of ease”7 letters
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