conceal
/kənˈsiːl/
"conceal" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“conceal” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #14,496. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,496
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To hide something from view or from public knowledge, to try to keep something secret.
Corpus desk
Index EN-conceal · conceal · English
conceal · rank #14,496 · 10 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,496
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH condemnation
Nearest frequency peer: condemnation (+1 rank slots)
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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “conceal”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- civilized
civilized
85,509 corpus weight
- comb
comb
85,508 corpus weight
- completes
completes
85,507 corpus weight
- conceal
conceal
85,505 corpus weight
- condemnation
condemnation
85,504 corpus weight
- cores
cores
85,502 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “conceal” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | conceal |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /kənˈsiːl/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #14,496 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “conceal” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around conceal (IPA /kənˈsiːl/), averb. Corpus frequency is #14,496 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "To hide something from view or from public knowledge, to try to keep something secret.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for conceal, with forms such as "cconceal", "cnoceal", and "cocneal". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "concept", "concern", "concert", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English concelen, from Old French conceler (“hide, disguise”), from Latin concelāre, infinitive of concelō (“carefully disguise”). The correct English form is conceal, spelled C-O-N-C-E-A-L.
Definition
- 1To hide something from view or from public knowledge, to try to keep something secret.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how conceal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He tried to conceal the truth about his health.
Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
Etymology
From Middle English concelen, from Old French conceler (“hide, disguise”), from Latin concelāre, infinitive of concelō (“carefully disguise”).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cconceal
- cnoceal
- cocneal
- concael
- concceal
- conceall
- concela
- conecal
- connceal
- ocnceal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of conceal - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "conceal", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "conceal" maps to 11 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "concept". View pair
- 10 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #14,496 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.