concession
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The verdict
“concession” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - das Aufgeben von etwas, oder die Anerkennung von Ansprüchen, in der Hoffnung, zu einer Einigung zu gelangen
Corpus desk
Index DE-concession · concession · German
concession · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | concession |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „concession“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
concession is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for concession, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is concession, spelled C-O-N-C-E-S-S-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1das Aufgeben von etwas, oder die Anerkennung von Ansprüchen, in der Hoffnung, zu einer Einigung zu gelangen
- 2die Sache, die (in Hoffnung auf eine Einigung) bewilligt oder aufgegeben wurde
- 3eine Fläche oder Privileg, das innerhalb bestimmter Voraussetzungen genutzt werden kann
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how concession appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Without concessions this argument will last forever.
His latest concession was not to run for president again.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.