conceited
/kənˈsiː.tɪd/adjective, verb
conceited is spelled C-O-N-C-E-I-T-E-D. The wrong spelling people search most is concieted: about 170 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 14 of all searches for the word. Conceited is an adjective meaning “Having an excessively favourable opinion of one's abilities, appearance, etc.; egotistical and vain”.
How many letters and syllables are in conceited?
| Letters | 9: C-O-N-C-E-I-T-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 33,636th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, concieted, about 170 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell conceited?
Conceited is spelled C-O-N-C-E-I-T-E-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 14 of the searches for conceited 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 conceited?
Conceited appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 33,636th 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 conceited?
- /kənˈsiː.tɪd/
Conceited has 3 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-conceited.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of conceited
- more conceited comparative
- most conceited superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does conceited mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Having an excessively favourable opinion of one's abilities, appearance, etc.; egotistical and vain.
- 2
Having an ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device.
- 3
obsoleteEndowed with fancy or imagination.
- 4
obsoleteCuriously contrived or designed; fanciful.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of conceit
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Conceited in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | vain, vaniteux, orgueilleux, suffisant, prétentieux |
| German | eingebildet, prätentiös, eitel, selbsteingenommen, blasiert , hochnäsig |
| Portuguese | convencido |
| Spanish | presuntuoso, presumido, comparón, creído, engreído, finchado |
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.