confront
con·front/kənˈfɹʌnt/verb
confront is spelled C-O-N-F-R-O-N-T: 8 letters and 2 syllables (con·front). It appears 6.3 times per million words in written English, the 9,594th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, confront means “To stand or meet facing, especially in competition, hostility or defiance; to come face to face with” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in confront?
| Letters | 8: C-O-N-F-R-O-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: con·front |
| In writing | 6.3 times per million words; the 9,594th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is confront?
Confront appears 6.3 times per million words in written English, the 9,594th 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 confront?
- US /kənˈfɹʌnt/
- Australia /kənˈfɹɐnt/
- /kənˈfɹʊnt/
Confront has 2 syllables, split con·front in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-confront.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with confront?
4 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as confront from its last stressed vowel (/ʌnt/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of confront
- confronts present, singular, he/she/it
- confronting participle, present
- confronted participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does confront mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To stand or meet facing, especially in competition, hostility or defiance; to come face to face with.
It is important that police officers learn to deescalate situations in which someone confronts them aggressively.
- 2
To deal with.
confront a problem
- 3
To bring someone face to face with something.
We should confront him about the missing money.
- 4
To come up against; to encounter.
Inter Milan are to confront Juventus in the final.
- 5
To engage in confrontation.
- 6
To set a thing side by side with; to compare.
- 7
To put a thing facing to; to set in contrast to.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Confront in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | confronter |
| German | konfrontieren, entgegentreten , sich einer Sache f stellen, sich mit etwas auseinandersetzen, sich mit einem Problem befassen |
| Portuguese | confrontar, enfrentar |
| Spanish | enfrentar, confrontar, salirle al paso, enfrontar, hacer frente |
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 confront come from?
From Middle French confronter, borrowed from Medieval Latin cōnfrontāre, from con- + frontem (“front, forehead”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).