concomitant
/kənˈkɑmətənt/adjective, noun
concomitant is spelled C-O-N-C-O-M-I-T-A-N-T: 11 letters and 4 syllables. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 39,336th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, concomitant means “Accompanying; conjoining; attending; concurrent” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in concomitant?
| Letters | 11: C-O-N-C-O-M-I-T-A-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 39,336th 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 concomitant?
Concomitant appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 39,336th 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 concomitant?
- UK /kənˈkɒmɪtənt/
- US /kənˈkɑmətənt/
- Canada /kənˈkɒmətənt/
Concomitant has 4 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-concomitant.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of concomitant
- concomitants plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does concomitant mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Accompanying; conjoining; attending; concurrent.
- 2
Of or relating to the grammatical aspect which expresses that a secondary action is occurring simultaneously to the primary action of the statement.
noun
- 1
Something happening or existing at the same time.
- 2
An invariant homogeneous polynomial in the coefficients of a form, a covariant variable, and a contravariant variable.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Concomitant in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | concomitant |
| German | damit einhergehend, konkomitant , Begleiterscheinung |
| Portuguese | concomitante |
| Spanish | concomitante |
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 concomitant come from?
First attested 1607; from Middle French concomitant, from Latin concomitāns, the present participle of concomitor (“to accompany”), from con- (“together”) + comitor (“to accompany”), from comes (“companion”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).