secede
/sɪˈsiːd/verb
secede is spelled S-E-C-E-D-E. The wrong spelling people search most is seceed: about 110 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 13 of all searches for the word. Secede is a verb meaning “To split from or to withdraw from membership of a political union, an alliance or an organisation”.
How many letters and syllables are in secede?
| Letters | 6: S-E-C-E-D-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 37,459th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, seceed, about 110 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell secede?
Secede is spelled S-E-C-E-D-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 13 of the searches for secede 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 secede?
Secede appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 37,459th 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 secede?
- /sɪˈsiːd/
Secede has 2 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-secede.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of secede
- secedes present, singular, he/she/it
- seceding participle, present
- seceded participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does secede mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To split from or to withdraw from membership of a political union, an alliance or an organisation.
- 2
To split or to withdraw one or more constituent entities from membership of a political union, an alliance or an organisation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Secede in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense To split from or to withdraw from membership of a political union, an alliance o:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | faire sécession |
| German | abspalten |
| Portuguese | abandonar, separar-se, retirar-se, entrar em secessão |
| Spanish | secesionar |
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 secede come from?
From Latin secedere, from se- (“apart”) + cēdō (“to go”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).