succinct
suc·cinct/sə(k)ˈsɪŋ(k)t/adjective
succinct is spelled S-U-C-C-I-N-C-T, 2 syllables: suc·cinct. The wrong spelling people search most is succint: about 1,270 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Succinct is an adjective meaning “Compressed into a small area; compact”.
How many letters and syllables are in succinct?
| Letters | 8: S-U-C-C-I-N-C-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: suc·cinct |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 32,798th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, succint, about 1,270 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell succinct?
Succinct is spelled S-U-C-C-I-N-C-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for succinct 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 succinct?
Succinct appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 32,798th 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 succinct?
- UK /səkˈsɪŋ(k)t/
- US /sə(k)ˈsɪŋ(k)t/
Succinct has 2 syllables, split suc·cinct in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-succinct.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of succinct
- more succinct comparative
- succincter comparative
- most succinct superlative
- succinctest superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does succinct mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
archaicEncircled by, or as if by, a girdle; drawn up or wrapped tightly.
Near-synonyms: bundled up, cinched, engirdled, girdled
- 2
archaicOf some pupae: encircled by a thread of silk around the centre.
- 3
archaicOf clothes: not loose; close-fitting, tight-fitting.
- 4
Compressed into a small area; compact.
Unlike general lossless data compression algorithms, succinct data structures retain the ability to use them in-place, without decompressing them first.
- 5
Of an action, etc.: lasting a short time; brief, curt.
- 6
Of speech or writing: brief and to the point; concise.
You should give clear, succinct information to the clients.
adverb
- 1
obsoleteSynonym of succinctly (“briefly, concisely”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Succinct in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | kompakt , bündig, knapp, kurz, lapidar, prägnant |
| French | succinct |
| Portuguese | sucinto |
| Spanish | sucinto |
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.