concept
/ˈkɑn.sɛpt/noun, verb
concept is spelled C-O-N-C-E-P-T. The wrong spelling people search most is consept: about 60 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 56 of all searches for the word. Concept is a noun meaning “An abstract and general idea; an abstraction”. The plural of concept is concepts.
How many letters and syllables are in concept?
| Letters | 7: C-O-N-C-E-P-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 59 times per million words; the 1,758th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, consept, about 60 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 concept?
Concept is spelled C-O-N-C-E-P-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 56 of the searches for concept 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 concept?
Concept appears 59 times per million words in written English, the 1,758th 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 concept?
- UK /ˈkɒn.sɛpt/
- US /ˈkɑn.sɛpt/
- Canada /ˈkɒn.sɛpt/
Concept has 2 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-concept.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of concept
- concepts plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- concepting participle, present
- concepted participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does concept mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An abstract and general idea; an abstraction.
- 2
Understanding retained in the mind, from experience, reasoning and imagination; a generalization (generic, basic form), or abstraction (mental impression), of a particular set of instances or occurrences (specific, though different, recorded manifestations of the concept).
- 3
A description of supported operations on a type, including their syntax and semantics.
verb
- 1
To conceive; to dream up.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Concept in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense something understood and retained in the mind:
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 concept come from?
Borrowed from Middle French concept, from Latin conceptus (“a thought, purpose, also a conceiving, etc.”), from concipiō (“to take in, conceive”). Doublet of conceit and concetto. See conceive.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).