# succeed

> English word · Verb · IPA /səkˈsiːd/ · frequency rank #4,414

## Definitions
1. To follow something in sequence or time.
2. To replace or supplant someone in order vis-à-vis an office, position, or title.
3. To come after or follow; to be subsequent or consequent; (often with to).
4. To come in the place of another person, thing, or event; to come next in the usual, natural, or prescribed course of things; to follow; hence, to come next in the possession of anything; (often with to).
5. To come in the place of another person, thing, or event; to come next in the usual, natural, or prescribed course of things; to follow; hence, to come next in the possession of anything; (often with to).
6. To prevail in obtaining an intended objective or accomplishment; to prosper as a result or conclusion of a particular effort.
7. To prosper or attain success and beneficial results in general.
8. To turn out, fare, do (well or ill).
9. To support; to prosper; to promote or give success to.
10. To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve; (often with to).
11. To fall heir to; to inherit.
12. To go down or near (with to).

## Etymology
From Old French succeder, from Latin succedere (“to go under, go from under, come under, approach, follow, take the place of, receive by succession, prosper, be successful”).

## Easily confused with
- **success** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/succeed-vs-success)
- **succeeded** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/succeed-vs-succeeded)

## Common misspellings (8)
`scuceed`, `ssucceed`, `succed`, `succede`, `succeedd`, `suceced`, `suceed`, `uscceed`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/succeed