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concurrency

/kəŋˈkʌɹənsi/noun

concurrency is spelled C-O-N-C-U-R-R-E-N-C-Y: 11 letters. It appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 47,633rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, concurrency means “The property or an instance of being concurrent; something that happens at the same time as something else” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of concurrency is concurrencies.

How many letters and syllables are in concurrency?

Letters11: C-O-N-C-U-R-R-E-N-C-Y
In writingabout once in every 3 million words; the 47,633rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is concurrency?

Concurrency appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 47,633rd 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 concurrency?

  • /kəŋˈkʌɹənsi/

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

Forms of concurrency

  • concurrencies plural

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

What does concurrency mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The property or an instance of being concurrent; something that happens at the same time as something else.

  2. 2

    A property of systems where several processes execute at the same time.

  3. 3

    A stretch of road that is shared between two or more numbered or named routes.

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

Concurrency in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
GermanGleichzeitigkeit (the property or an instance of being concurrent), Nebenläufigkeit (computer science: having several processes…)

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.

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