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consent

con·sent/kənˈsɛnt/verb, noun

consent is spelled C-O-N-S-E-N-T, 2 syllables: con·sent. The wrong spelling people search most is conscent: about 60 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 81 of all searches for the word. Consent is a verb meaning “To express willingness, to give permission”.

How many letters and syllables are in consent?

Letters7: C-O-N-S-E-N-T
Syllables2: con·sent
In writing23 times per million words; the 3,875th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, conscent, about 60 Bing searches a month (all of them)
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How do you spell consent?

Consent is spelled C-O-N-S-E-N-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 81 of the searches for consent in either form.

consentthe right spelling4,770 searches a month
conscentan extra c60 searches a month

Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.

How common is consent?

Consent appears 23 times per million words in written English, the 3,875th 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 consent?

  • US /kənˈsɛnt/
  • Australia /kənˈsent/

Consent has 2 syllables, split con·sent in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-consent.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with consent?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as consent from its last stressed vowel (/ɛnt/):

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 consent

  • consents present, singular, he/she/it, plural
  • consenting participle, present
  • consented participle, past, singular, he/she/it, plural

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

What does consent mean?

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

verb

  1. 1

    To express willingness, to give permission.

    After reflecting a little bit, I've decided to consent to her practising the piano in the house.

  2. 2

    To cause to sign a consent form.

  3. 3

    obsoleteTo grant; to allow; to assent to.

  4. 4

    To agree in opinion or sentiment; to be of the same mind; to accord; to concur.

noun

  1. 1

    Voluntary agreement or permission.

  2. 2

    obsoleteUnity or agreement of opinion, sentiment, or inclination.

  3. 3

    obsoleteAdvice; counsel.

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

Consent in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchconsentir, approuver, agréer (to express willingness), consentement, approbation, agrément (voluntary agreement)
Germanzustimmen, einwilligen (to express willingness), Zustimmung, Konsens, Einverständnis (voluntary agreement)
Portugueseconsentir, aprovar, deixar (to express willingness), consentimento (voluntary agreement)
Spanishconsentir (to express willingness), consentimiento, venia, anuencia (voluntary agreement)

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 consent come from?

Recorded in Middle English since circa 1225, borrowed from Old French consentir, from Latin cōnsentīre (“to agree; to assent, consent”), itself from com- (“with”) + sentiō (“to feel”) (whence con-).

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

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