concentration
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "concentration", 13-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "concentration" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "concentration" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
concentration is aEnglishnoun. It means: The act, process or ability of concentrating; the process of becoming concentrated, or the state of being concentrated. Pronounced /ˌkɒn.sənˈtɹeɪ.ʃən/. It ranks #4,514 in English word frequency.
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|---|---|
| Headword | concentration |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌkɒn.sənˈtɹeɪ.ʃən/ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #4,514 |
| Misspellings tracked | 21 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The English entry for concentration is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˌkɒn.sənˈtɹeɪ.ʃən/. Corpus data places it at rank #4,514 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 21 documented wrong-spelling variants for concentration, with forms such as "cconcentration", "cnocentration", and "cocnentration". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From New Latin concentrātiō (“(1550) action or an act of coming together at a single place; (1659) extraction or separation of one or more of the metals present in an alloy”). Compare French concentration, Spanish concentración, Italian concentrazione (last… 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 concentration, spelled C-O-N-C-E-N-T-R-A-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1The act, process or ability of concentrating; the process of becoming concentrated, or the state of being concentrated.
- 2The act, process or ability of concentrating; the process of becoming concentrated, or the state of being concentrated.
- 3The act, process or ability of concentrating; the process of becoming concentrated, or the state of being concentrated.
- 4The act, process or ability of concentrating; the process of becoming concentrated, or the state of being concentrated.
- 5A field or course of study on which one focuses, especially as a student in a college or university.
- 6The proportion of a substance in a whole.
- 7The proportion of a substance in a whole.
- 8The matching game pelmanism.
Etymology
From New Latin concentrātiō (“(1550) action or an act of coming together at a single place; (1659) extraction or separation of one or more of the metals present in an alloy”). Compare French concentration, Spanish concentración, Italian concentrazione (last quarter of 16th century). Equivalent to concentrate + -ion. By surface analysis, con- + centre + -ate + -ion.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cconcentration,cnocentration,cocnentration,conccentration,concenntration,concenrtation,concentartion,concentraiton,concentrasion,concentratino,concentrationn,concentratoin,concentrattion,concentrration,concentrtaion,concenttration,concetnration,concnetration,conecntration,conncentration,ocncentration
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Misspelling Variants of "concentration"
Frequency rank: #4,514 in English
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