concession

/\kɔ̃.sɛ.sjɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#7,039

in French word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

7

similar word pairs

concession is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de concéder quelque jouissance, quelque droit. Pronounced \kɔ̃.sɛ.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #7,039 in French word frequency. Often confused with conclusion and conversion.

Key facts for concession
PropertyValue
Headwordconcession
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ̃.sɛ.sjɔ̃\
Letters10
Frequency rank#7,039
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for concession is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.sɛ.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,039 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for concession, with forms such as "cconcession", "cnocession", and "cocnession". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "conclusion", "conversion", "confession", 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 concession, spelled C-O-N-C-E-S-S-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 concéder quelque jouissance, quelque droit.
  2. 2
    Ce qui est concédé, terre que l’État donne aux particuliers dans une nouvelle colonie, à condition de les mettre en valeur.
  3. 3
    Droit d’exploiter un bien public sur une durée de temps.
  4. 4
    Ensemble familial d’habitations, comprenant un terrain.
  5. 5
    Place dans un cimetière.
  6. 6
    Ce que l’on concède à quelqu’un dans une contestation, dans un débat.
  7. 7
    Figure de rhétorique par laquelle on accorde à son adversaire ce qu’on pourrait lui disputer.
  8. 8
    Reconnaissance, acceptation d’un fait qui devrait empêcher la réalisation d’un autre fait, mais qui cependant ne l’empêche pas.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: cconcession,cnocession,cocnession,conccession,concesion,concesison,concessino,concessionn,concessoin,concsesion,conecssion,conncession,ocncession

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for concession

Misspelling Variants of "concession"

cconcession11cnocession10cocnession10conccession11concesion9concesison10concessino10concessionn11
Misspelling Variants of "concession"

Frequency rank: #7,039 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "concession"?
"concession" is spelled C-O-N-C-E-S-S-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃.sɛ.sjɔ̃\.
What does "concession" mean?
As a noun, "concession" means: Action de concéder quelque jouissance, quelque droit.
What words are commonly confused with "concession"?
"concession" is commonly confused with "conclusion", "conversion", "confession". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "concession"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "concession" is \kɔ̃.sɛ.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "concession" come from?
"concession" 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.