concerning
/kənˈsɝnɪŋ/adjective, preposition, noun, verb
concerning is spelled C-O-N-C-E-R-N-I-N-G. The wrong spelling people search most is concering: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 20 of all searches for the word. Concerning is an adjective meaning “Causing concern; worrying”.
How many letters and syllables are in concerning?
| Letters | 10: C-O-N-C-E-R-N-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 20 times per million words; the 4,224th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, concering, about 30 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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 concerning?
Concerning is spelled C-O-N-C-E-R-N-I-N-G. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for concerning 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 concerning?
Concerning appears 20 times per million words in written English, the 4,224th 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 concerning?
- US /kənˈsɝnɪŋ/
- UK /kənˈsɜːnɪŋ/
Concerning 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: En-us-concerning.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with concerning?
7 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as concerning from its last stressed vowel (/ɜɹnɪŋ/):
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 concerning
- more concerning comparative
- most concerning superlative
- concernings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does concerning mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Causing concern; worrying.
It's very concerning that our neighbour seems to be crying very loudly these days.
- 2
obsoleteImportant.
preposition
- 1
Regarding, respecting.
Physically, everything is perfect, but concerning your mental state, you have some problems.
noun
- 1
That which one is concerned in; one's business.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of concern
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Concerning in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | besorgniserregend , betreffs, bezüglich |
| Spanish | concerniente , concerniente a, referente a, sobre, concerniendo, acerca de |
| French | à propos de, au sujet de, quant à, concernant |
| Portuguese | quanto a |
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 concerning come from?
From concern + -ing. The adjective and preposition follow from the verb.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).