concentrait

/\kɔ̃.sɑ̃.tʁɛ\/ verb

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#48,420

in French word usage

Misspellings

17

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

concentrait is aFrenchverb. It means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de concentrer. Pronounced \kɔ̃.sɑ̃.tʁɛ\. Often confused with contentait and concentrent.

Key facts for concentrait
PropertyValue
Headwordconcentrait
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\kɔ̃.sɑ̃.tʁɛ\
Letters11
Frequency rank#48,420
Misspellings tracked17
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of concentrait in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for concentrait is 11 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.sɑ̃.tʁɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #48,420 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de concentrer.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 17 documented wrong-spelling variants for concentrait, with forms such as "cconcentrait", "cnocentrait", and "cocnentrait". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "contentait", "concentrent", "concentrant", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is concentrait, spelled C-O-N-C-E-N-T-R-A-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de concentrer.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: cconcentrait,cnocentrait,cocnentrait,conccentrait,concenntrait,concenrtait,concentarit,concentraitt,concentrati,concentriat,concentrrait,concenttrait,concetnrait,concnetrait,conecntrait,conncentrait,ocncentrait

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for concentrait

Misspelling Variants of "concentrait"

cconcentrait12cnocentrait11cocnentrait11conccentrait12concenntrait12concenrtait11concentarit11concentraitt12
Misspelling Variants of "concentrait"

Frequency rank: #48,420 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "concentrait"?
"concentrait" is spelled C-O-N-C-E-N-T-R-A-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃.sɑ̃.tʁɛ\.
What does "concentrait" mean?
As a verb, "concentrait" means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de concentrer.
What words are commonly confused with "concentrait"?
"concentrait" is commonly confused with "contentait", "concentrent", "concentrant". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "concentrait"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "concentrait" is \kɔ̃.sɑ̃.tʁɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "concentrait" come from?
"concentrait" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.