concentric
/kənˈsɛn.tɹɪk/adjective
concentric is spelled C-O-N-C-E-N-T-R-I-C. The wrong spelling people search most is coencentric: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 250 of all searches for the word. Concentric is an adjective meaning “Having a common center”.
How many letters and syllables are in concentric?
| Letters | 10: C-O-N-C-E-N-T-R-I-C |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 31,974th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, coencentric, about 10 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 concentric?
Concentric is spelled C-O-N-C-E-N-T-R-I-C. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 252 of the searches for concentric 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 concentric?
Concentric appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 31,974th 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 concentric?
- /kənˈsɛn.tɹɪk/
Concentric 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)-Flame,_not_lame-concentric.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-concentric.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of concentric
- more concentric comparative
- most concentric superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does concentric mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Having a common center.
- 2
Of a motion, in the direction of contraction of a muscle. (e.g. the extension of the lower arm by means of the elbow joint while contracting the triceps and other elbow extensor muscles; closing of the jaw while flexing the masseter).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Concentric in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense having a common center:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | concentrique |
| German | konzentrisch |
| Portuguese | concêntrico |
| Spanish | concéntrico |
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 concentric come from?
From Middle English concentrik, from Middle French concentrique, from Medieval Latin concentricus, from Latin con- (“with, together”) + centrum (“circle, center”). Equivalent to con- + -centric. By surface analysis, con- + centre + -ic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).