concise
/kənˈsaɪs/adjective, verb
concise is spelled C-O-N-C-I-S-E: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 2.9 times per million words in written English, the 15,798th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, concise means “Brief, yet including all important information” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in concise?
| Letters | 7: C-O-N-C-I-S-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.9 times per million words; the 15,798th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
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).
How common is concise?
Concise appears 2.9 times per million words in written English, the 15,798th 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 concise?
- /kənˈsaɪs/
Concise 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: En-us-concise.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of concise
- more concise comparative
- most concise superlative
- concises present, singular, he/she/it
- concising participle, present
- concised participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does concise mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Brief, yet including all important information.
- 2
obsoletePhysically short or truncated.
verb
- 1
IndiaTo make concise; to abridge or summarize.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Concise in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense brief and precise:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | concis |
| German | kurz, prägnant, knapp, konzis, bündig, gedrängt |
| Portuguese | conciso, sucinto |
| Spanish | conciso, breve, sucinto, escueto |
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 concise come from?
From Latin concīsus (“cut short”), from concīdere (“cut to pieces”), from caedēre (“to cut, to strike down”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).