concatenate
/kənˈkæ.tə.neɪt/
"concatenate" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“concatenate” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To join or link together, as though in a chain.
Corpus desk
Index EN-concatenate · concatenate · English
concatenate · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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 | concatenate |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /kənˈkæ.tə.neɪt/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “concatenate” in English
Rare enough to double-check
concatenate is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed /kənˈkæ.tə.neɪt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for concatenate in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From the perfect passive participle stem of Latin concatēnāre (“to link or chain together”), from con- (“with”) + catēnō (“chain, bind”), from catēna (“a chain”). The correct English form is concatenate, spelled C-O-N-C-A-T-E-N-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1To join or link together, as though in a chain.
- 2To join (text strings) together.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how concatenate appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Locke, by contrast, contended that [madness] was essentially a question of intellectual delusion, the capture of the mind by false ideas concatenated into a logical system of unreality.
Concatenating "shoe" with "string" yields "shoestring".
Etymology
From the perfect passive participle stem of Latin concatēnāre (“to link or chain together”), from con- (“with”) + catēnō (“chain, bind”), from catēna (“a chain”).
This word in other languages
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.