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conclude

/kənˈkluːd/verb

conclude is spelled C-O-N-C-L-U-D-E: 8 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 7.9 times per million words in written English, the 8,266th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, conclude means “To end; to come to an end” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in conclude?

Letters8: C-O-N-C-L-U-D-E
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing7.9 times per million words; the 8,266th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 conclude?

Conclude appears 7.9 times per million words in written English, the 8,266th 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 conclude?

  • /kənˈkluːd/

Conclude 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-conclude.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of conclude

  • concludes present, singular, he/she/it
  • concluding participle, present
  • concluded participle, past

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

What does conclude mean?

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

verb

  1. 1

    To end; to come to an end.

    The story concluded with a moral.

  2. 2

    To bring to an end; to close; to finish.

  3. 3

    To bring about as a result; to effect; to make.

    to conclude a bargain

  4. 4

    To come to a conclusion, to a final decision.

    From the evidence, I conclude that this man was murdered.

  5. 5

    obsoleteTo make a final determination or judgment concerning; to judge; to decide.

  6. 6

    To shut off; to restrain; to limit; to estop; to bar.

    The defendant is concluded by his own plea.

  7. 7

    obsoleteTo shut up; to enclose.

  8. 8

    obsoleteTo include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace; to confine.

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

Conclude in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchconclure (to end)
Germanbeenden, schließen, zu Ende führen, abschließen (to end), entscheiden, beschließen (to come to a final decision)
Portugueseconcluir (to end)
Spanishconcluir (to end), desembocar (to come to a final decision)

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 conclude come from?

From Middle English concluden, borrowed from Latin conclūdere (“to shut up, close, end”).

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

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