concept
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,733
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
14
similar word pairs
concept is aFrenchnoun. It means: Idée abstraite et générale ; abstraction. Pronounced \kɔ̃.sɛpt\. It ranks #1,733 in French word frequency. Often confused with conçut and content.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | concept |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.sɛpt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,733 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for concept is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.sɛpt\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,733 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for concept, with forms such as "cconcept", "cnocept", and "cocnept". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "conçut", "content", "concert", and more, 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 concept, spelled C-O-N-C-E-P-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Idée abstraite et générale ; abstraction.
- 2Idée générale de quelque chose
- 3Vue de l’esprit, idée qu’on se fait d’une chose en la détachant de son objet réel.
- 4Personne étrange, sortant du lot.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cconcept,cnocept,cocnept,conccept,conceppt,conceptt,concetp,concpet,conecpt,conncept,ocncept
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for concept
Misspelling Variants of "concept"
Frequency rank: #1,733 in French
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