concentration

/\kɔ̃.sɑ̃.tʁa.sjɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

13 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,669

in French word usage

Misspellings

20

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

concentration is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de regrouper en un point ou une zone ce qui était dispersé. Pronounced \kɔ̃.sɑ̃.tʁa.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #3,669 in French word frequency. Often confused with concertation and concentrations.

Key facts for concentration
PropertyValue
Headwordconcentration
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ̃.sɑ̃.tʁa.sjɔ̃\
Letters13
Frequency rank#3,669
Misspellings tracked20
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for concentration is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.sɑ̃.tʁa.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,669 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 20 documented wrong-spelling variants for concentration, with forms such as "cconcentration", "cnocentration", and "cocnentration". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "concertation", "concentrations", 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 concentration, spelled C-O-N-C-E-N-T-R-A-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de regrouper en un point ou une zone ce qui était dispersé.
  2. 2
    Quantité relative d'une substance par rapport à un milieu.
  3. 3
    Présence d'un grand nombre de choses ou de personnes apparentées dans une zone restreinte.
  4. 4
    Action de faire porter la pensée sur une idée ou une action précise, de façon spontanée ou moyennant un effort particulier.
  5. 5
    Action de concentrer des forces productives, agrandissement des entreprises par la réunion de plusieurs d'entre elles par voie de fusion ou de regroupement d'établissements différents d'une même société permettant ainsi la réduction des frais généraux.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: cconcentration,cnocentration,cocnentration,conccentration,concenntration,concenrtation,concentartion,concentraiton,concentratino,concentrationn,concentratoin,concentrattion,concentrration,concentrtaion,concenttration,concetnration,concnetration,conecntration,conncentration,ocncentration

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for concentration

Misspelling Variants of "concentration"

cconcentration14cnocentration13cocnentration13conccentration14concenntration14concenrtation13concentartion13concentraiton13
Misspelling Variants of "concentration"

Frequency rank: #3,669 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "concentration"?
"concentration" is spelled C-O-N-C-E-N-T-R-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃.sɑ̃.tʁa.sjɔ̃\.
What does "concentration" mean?
As a noun, "concentration" means: Action de regrouper en un point ou une zone ce qui était dispersé.
What words are commonly confused with "concentration"?
"concentration" is commonly confused with "concertation", "concentrations". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "concentration"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "concentration" is \kɔ̃.sɑ̃.tʁa.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "concentration" come from?
"concentration" 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.