concern
\kənˈsɜːn\
The verdict
“concern” is uncommon French (frequency #68,933 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,933
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Inquiétude, souci, préoccupation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-concern · concern · French
concern · rank #68,933 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,933
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH concevait
Nearest frequency peer: concevait (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « concern »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- commencerez
commencerez
31,071 corpus weight
- compliance
compliance
31,070 corpus weight
- concern
concern
31,068 corpus weight
- concevait
concevait
31,067 corpus weight
- congédie
congédie
31,066 corpus weight
- consacrez
consacrez
31,065 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « concern » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | concern |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kənˈsɜːn\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #68,933 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « concern » en français
Rare enough to double-check
concern is uncommon French at frequency #68,933 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kənˈsɜːn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for concern in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is concern, spelled C-O-N-C-E-R-N.
Definition
- 1Inquiétude, souci, préoccupation.
- 2Soin, souci.
- 3Importance, intérêt.
- 4Groupe, société.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how concern appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mark’s health was of great concern to Connie.
This is an important concern if we decide to move forward with this plan.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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