concern

[kənˈsɜːn]

/[kənˈsɜːn]/ noun

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The verdict

“concern” is uncommon German (frequency #73,365 among 1,273 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#73,365
frequency rank, German
1,273
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Angelegenheit

Corpus desk

Index DE-concern · concern · German

concern · rank #73,365 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #73,365
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,273
  • PHOTO-FINISH Corvey

Nearest frequency peer: Corvey (+2 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „concern“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „concern“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for concern
PropertyValue
Headwordconcern
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[kənˈsɜːn]
Letters7
Frequency rank#73,365
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „concern“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.concernfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Corvey“ (#73,367), „citrus“ (#73,361), „Chlorophyll“ (#73,359). Unter 1,273 „C“-Lemmata liegt „concern“ bei #73,365. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

concern is uncommon German at frequency #73,365 among 1,273 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [kənˈsɜːn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 7 senses are on record.

concern has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is concern, spelled C-O-N-C-E-R-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Angelegenheit
  2. 2
    Betrieb
  3. 3
    Beziehung
  4. 4
    Interesse
  5. 5
    Wichtigkeit
  6. 6
    Bedenken
  7. 7
    Geschichte

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how concern appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. That is no concern of mine.
  2. "No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise t…

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "concern"?
"concern" is spelled C-O-N-C-E-R-N. The IPA pronunciation is [kənˈsɜːn].
What does "concern" mean?
As a noun, "concern" means: Angelegenheit
How do you pronounce "concern"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "concern" is [kənˈsɜːn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "concern" come from?
"concern" is a German word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "concern", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Cheddar#73,358Córdoba#73,372delikat#73,377candela#73,349

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list