conceives
/kənˈsiːvz/
"conceives" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“conceives” is uncommon English (frequency #71,415 among 43,570 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,415
- frequency rank, English
- 43,570
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - third-person singular simple present indicative of conceive
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | conceives |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /kənˈsiːvz/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #71,415 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “conceives” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
conceives is uncommon English at frequency #71,415 among 43,570 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /kənˈsiːvz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "third-person singular simple present indicative of conceive".
Zero misspellings are on record for conceives in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is conceives, spelled C-O-N-C-E-I-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1third-person singular simple present indicative of conceive
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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Using “conceives”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-O-N-C-E-I-V-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.