concede

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The English entry for concede is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /kənˈsiːd/. Corpus data places it at rank #15,370 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for concede, with forms such as "cconcede", "cnocede", and "cocnede". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "conde", "conned", "concept", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: 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”). Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is concede, spelled C-O-N-C-E-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.