# concede

> English word · Verb · IPA /kənˈsiːd/ · frequency rank #15,370

## Definitions
1. To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant
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
6. (of a bowler) to have runs scored off of one's bowling.

## Etymology
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”).

## Easily confused with
- **conde** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/concede-vs-conde)
- **conned** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/concede-vs-conned)
- **concept** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/concede-vs-concept)
- **concern** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/concede-vs-concern)
- **concert** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/concede-vs-concert)
- **concise** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/concede-vs-concise)
- **convene** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/concede-vs-convene)
- **confide** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/concede-vs-confide)
- **conceit** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/concede-vs-conceit)
- **concrete** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/concede-vs-concrete)
- **conclude** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/concede-vs-conclude)
- **conceded** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/concede-vs-conceded)
- **conceive** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/concede-vs-conceive)
- **concedes** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/concede-vs-concedes)
- **Concorde** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/concede-vs-concorde)
- **conceal** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/conceal-vs-concede)
- **concave** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/concave-vs-concede)
- **coincide** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coincide-vs-concede)

## Common misspellings (9)
`cconcede`, `cnocede`, `cocnede`, `conccede`, `concdee`, `conceed`, `conecde`, `conncede`, `ocncede`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/concede