concede
/kənˈsid/verb
concede is spelled C-O-N-C-E-D-E. The wrong spelling people search most is conceed: about 120 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 18 of all searches for the word. Concede is a verb meaning “To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant”.
How many letters and syllables are in concede?
| Letters | 7: C-O-N-C-E-D-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 3.0 times per million words; the 15,368th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, conceed, about 120 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell concede?
Concede is spelled C-O-N-C-E-D-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 18 of the searches for concede in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is concede?
Concede appears 3.0 times per million words in written English, the 15,368th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce concede?
- UK /kənˈsiːd/
- US /kənˈsid/
- UK [kənˈsɪid]
Concede has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-concede.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with concede?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as concede from its last stressed vowel (/id/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of concede
- concedes present, singular, he/she/it
- conceding participle, present
- conceded participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does concede mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant
I have to concede the argument.
- 2
To grant, as a right or privilege; to make concession of.
- 3
To admit or agree to be true; to acknowledge
- 4
To yield or make concession.
- 5
To have a goal or point scored against
I don't know how they conceded that goal; their defense was so solid.
- 6
(of a bowler) to have runs scored off of one's bowling.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Concede in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | concéder, céder, admettre , concéder que, reconnaître |
| German | zugeben, zugestehen , einräumen , zulassen |
| Portuguese | ceder , reconhecer , conceder, outorgar, conferir |
| Spanish | conceder , dar la razón a , exaudir |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does concede come from?
From Middle English [Term?], from Old French conceder, from Latin concēdō (“give way, yield”), from con- (“wholly”) + cēdō (“to yield, give way, to go, grant”), from Proto-Indo-European *ked- (“to go, yield”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).