concordat
/kənˈkɔːdæt/
"concordat" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“concordat” is uncommon English (frequency #77,549 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,549
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A formal agreement between two parties, especially between a church and a state; specifically, an agreement between the Pope and a government.
Corpus desk
Index EN-concordat · concordat · English
concordat · rank #77,549 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,549
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH concussive
Nearest frequency peer: concussive (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “concordat”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- combinator
combinator
22,455 corpus weight
- communing
communing
22,454 corpus weight
- concordat
concordat
22,452 corpus weight
- concussive
concussive
22,451 corpus weight
- confluent
confluent
22,450 corpus weight
- Coniston
Coniston
22,449 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “concordat” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | concordat |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kənˈkɔːdæt/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #77,549 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “concordat” in English
Rare enough to double-check
concordat is uncommon English at frequency #77,549 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kənˈkɔːdæt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A formal agreement between two parties, especially between a church and a state; specifically, an agreement between the Pope and a government.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for concordat, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French concordat, from Latin concordatum. The correct English form is concordat, spelled C-O-N-C-O-R-D-A-T.
Definition
- 1A formal agreement between two parties, especially between a church and a state; specifically, an agreement between the Pope and a government.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how concordat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
That eminent and independant statesman, Count Louis of Medicis, concluded a concordat with cardinal Gonsalvi, at Terracina, on the 16th February, 1816, probably the most humiliating instrument to which the Roman court has been forced to submit since the fall of the Bonapartes.
The Concordat of the See of Rome with King Diniz is the most interesting ecclesiastical epoch […].
Etymology
From French concordat, from Latin concordatum.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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