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concentrate

/ˈkɑn.sən.tɹeɪt/verb, adjective, noun

concentrate is spelled C-O-N-C-E-N-T-R-A-T-E. The wrong spelling people search most is consentrate: about 50 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 25 of all searches for the word. Concentrate is a verb meaning “To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force”.

How many letters and syllables are in concentrate?

Letters11: C-O-N-C-E-N-T-R-A-T-E
Syllables3 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing12 times per million words; the 6,347th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, consentrate, about 50 Bing searches a month (all of them)
Same letters

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 concentrate?

Concentrate is spelled C-O-N-C-E-N-T-R-A-T-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 25 of the searches for concentrate in either form.

concentratethe right spelling1,200 searches a month
consentrates in place of c50 searches a month

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 concentrate?

Concentrate appears 12 times per million words in written English, the 6,347th 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 concentrate?

  • UK /ˈkɒn.sən.tɹeɪt/
  • US /ˈkɑn.sən.tɹeɪt/
  • Canada /ˈkɒn.sən.tɹeɪt/

Concentrate 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-concentrate.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with concentrate?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as concentrate (/ɑnsəntɹeɪt/).

Spelled with the same letters in another order: concertante.

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 concentrate

  • concentrates present, singular, he/she/it, plural
  • concentrating participle, present
  • concentrated participle, past
  • more concentrate comparative
  • most concentrate superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does concentrate mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

verb

  1. 1

    To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force.

    to concentrate rays of light into a focus

  2. 2

    To increase the strength and diminish the bulk of, as of a liquid or an ore; to intensify, by getting rid of useless material; to condense.

    to concentrate acid by evaporation

  3. 3

    To approach or meet in a common center; to consolidate.

    Population tends to concentrate in cities.

  4. 4

    To focus one's thought or attention (on).

    (oneself)

adjective

  1. 1

    concentrated

noun

  1. 1

    A substance that is in a condensed form.

    orange concentrate

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Concentrate in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchconcentrer (bring to, or direct toward, a common center), se concentrer (focus one's thought or attention), concentré (A substance that is in a condensed form)
Germankonzentrieren, sich konzentrieren (bring to, or direct toward, a common center), Konzentrat (A substance that is in a condensed form)
Portugueseconcentrar (bring to, or direct toward, a common center), concentrado (A substance that is in a condensed form), concentrar-se (approach or meet in a common center)
Spanishconcentrar (bring to, or direct toward, a common center), concentrarse [with en] (focus one's thought or attention), concentrado (A substance that is in a condensed form), concentrarse (approach or meet in a common center)

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 concentrate come from?

(early 17th century) From a Romance language, see French concentrer, Italian concentràre, Spanish concentrar; alternatively from Medieval Latin/New Latin concentrō + -ate (verb-forming suffix). Compare also earlier concentre and German konzentrieren. By surface analysis, con- + center (centr- in compounds) + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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