consider
/kənˈsɪd.əɹ/verb
consider is spelled C-O-N-S-I-D-E-R. The wrong spelling people search most is concider: about 70 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 20 of all searches for the word. Consider is a verb meaning “To think about seriously”.
How many letters and syllables are in consider?
| Letters | 8: C-O-N-S-I-D-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 98 times per million words; the 1,112th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, concider, about 70 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); 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 consider?
Consider is spelled C-O-N-S-I-D-E-R. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 20 of the searches for consider in either form.
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 consider?
Consider appears 98 times per million words in written English, the 1,112th 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 consider?
- UK /kənˈsɪd.ə/
- US /kənˈsɪd.əɹ/
- US [kənˈsɪɾ.ɚ]
Consider has 3 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-consider.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with consider?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as consider from its last stressed vowel (/ɪdəɹ/):
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 consider
- considers present, singular, he/she/it
- considering participle, present
- considered participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does consider mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To think about seriously.
Consider that we’ve had three major events and the year has hardly begun.
- 2
To think about something seriously or carefully: to deliberate.
- 3
To think about whether one will do (an action); to weigh as a possible course of action.
I’m considering going to the beach tomorrow.
- 4
To assign some quality to.
Consider yourself lucky, but consider your opponent skillful.
- 5
To look at attentively.
She sat there for a moment, considering him.
- 6
To take up as an example.
Consider a triangle having three equal sides.
- 7
To debate (or dispose of) a motion.
This body will now consider the proposed amendments to Section 453 of the zoning code.
- 8
To have regard to; to take into view or account; to pay due attention to; to respect.
He never seems to consider the feelings of others.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Consider in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | considérer, examiner, réfléchir, songer , envisager |
| German | überlegen , halten , betrachten, in Betracht ziehen |
| Portuguese | considerar , pensar em , ter (por/como) , fitar |
| Spanish | considerar , barajar, sopesar , observar |
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 consider come from?
From Middle English consideren, from Middle French considerer, from Latin considerare.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).