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concession

con·ces·sion/kənˈsɛʃən/noun, verb

concession is spelled C-O-N-C-E-S-S-I-O-N: 10 letters and 3 syllables (con·ces·sion). It appears 3.7 times per million words in written English, the 13,496th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, concession means “The act of conceding” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of concession is concessions.

How many letters and syllables are in concession?

Letters10: C-O-N-C-E-S-S-I-O-N
Syllables3: con·ces·sion
In writing3.7 times per million words; the 13,496th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is concession?

Concession appears 3.7 times per million words in written English, the 13,496th 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 concession?

  • US /kənˈsɛʃən/
  • Australia /kənˈseʃən/

Concession has 3 syllables, split con·ces·sion in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-concession.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with concession?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as concession from its last stressed vowel (/ɛʃən/):

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 concession

  • concessions plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • concessioning participle, present
  • concessioned participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does concession mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The act of conceding.

    Any parsone, prest or clerk, havyng any benefice... by wey of presentation, donation, concession, collation or institution.

  2. 2

    A compromise: a partial yielding to demands or requests.

  3. 3

    A portion of a township, especially equal lots once granted to settlers in Canada.

  4. 4

    A territory–usually an enclave in a major port–yielded to the administration of a foreign power.

    The French Concession in Shanghai

  5. 5

    CanadaA concession road: a narrow road between tracts of farmland, especially in Ontario, from their origin during the granting of concessions (see above).

  6. 6

    USThe premises granted to a business as a concession (see below)

  7. 7

    A right to use land or an offshore area for a specific purpose, such as oil exploration.

  8. 8

    USA right to operate a quasi-independent franchise of a larger company.

verb

  1. 1

    To grant or approve by means of a concession agreement.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you abbreviate concession?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of concession: conc..

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Concession in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
GermanZugeständnis (act of conceding), gewährtes Grundstück (grant of land for a specified purpose), Eingeständnis (any admission of the validity of a point…), Einräumen (admission of defeat)
Portugueseconcessão (grant of land for a specified purpose)
Frenchconcession (any admission of the validity of a point…)
Spanishconcesión (admission of defeat)

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 concession come from?

From late Middle English concession, from Middle French concession, from Latin concessiō (“a grant, permission, conceding”), from concēdō. Doublet of concessio.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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