concerned
con·cerned/kənˈsɝnd/adjective, verb
concerned is spelled C-O-N-C-E-R-N-E-D, 2 syllables: con·cerned. The wrong spelling people search most is concered: about 70 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 18 of all searches for the word. Concerned is an adjective meaning “Showing concern”.
How many letters and syllables are in concerned?
| Letters | 9: C-O-N-C-E-R-N-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: con·cerned |
| In writing | 56 times per million words; the 1,822nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, concered, about 70 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 concerned?
Concerned is spelled C-O-N-C-E-R-N-E-D. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 11 of the searches for concerned 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 concerned?
Concerned appears 56 times per million words in written English, the 1,822nd 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 concerned?
- US /kənˈsɝnd/
- UK /kənˈsɜːnd/
Concerned has 2 syllables, split con·cerned in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-concerned.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with concerned?
4 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as concerned from its last stressed vowel (/ɜɹnd/):
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 concerned
- more concerned comparative
- most concerned superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does concerned mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Showing concern.
There was a concerned expression on her face as I told her the news.
- 2
Involved or responsible.
The people concerned have been punished.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of concern
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Concerned in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | inquiet, préoccupé , impliqué |
| German | besorgt , beteiligt |
| Portuguese | preocupado |
| Spanish | preocupado |
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.