concomitant

\kɔ̃.kɔ.mi.tɑ̃\

/\kɔ̃.kɔ.mi.tɑ̃\/ adj

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The verdict

“concomitant” is uncommon French (frequency #75,528 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#75,528
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Simultané ; qui accompagne ou qui se produit en même temps.

Corpus desk

Index FR-concomitant · concomitant · French

concomitant · rank #75,528 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #75,528
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH concomitamment

Nearest frequency peer: concomitamment (-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 « concomitant »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « concomitant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for concomitant
PropertyValue
Headwordconcomitant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\kɔ̃.kɔ.mi.tɑ̃\
Letters11
Frequency rank#75,528
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « concomitant » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.concomitanttombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « concomitamment » (#75,527), « concupiscence » (#75,529), « conceptualiser » (#75,526). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « concomitant » est au #75,528. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

concomitant is uncommon French at frequency #75,528 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɔ̃.kɔ.mi.tɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

concomitant doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is concomitant, spelled C-O-N-C-O-M-I-T-A-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Simultané ; qui accompagne ou qui se produit en même temps.
  2. 2
    Coïncidant avec un autre fait qui semble être corrélé soit de manière fortuite soit parce qu’il est considéré comme principal, concordant ou ayant la même cause.
  3. 3
    Attenant.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how concomitant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Pasteur diagnostiqua le mal : c'était la maladie dite des morts flats ou flacherie, indépendante de la pébrine. Contrairement à l'opinion générale, deux maladies différentes, mais concomitantes, décimaient les magnaneries.
  2. Un projet de décret constitue, la plupart du temps, une mesure d’application d’une loi ou d’une ordonnance […]. Comme tel, il doit faire l’objet d’une réflexion concomitante à l’élaboration de celle-ci de façon à permettre dès ce stade une vision d’ensemble de la réglementation projetée […].

Synonyms

coïncident

This word in other languages

concomitant(English)concomitante(Español)concomitante(Português)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "concomitant"?
"concomitant" is spelled C-O-N-C-O-M-I-T-A-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃.kɔ.mi.tɑ̃\.
What does "concomitant" mean?
As an adjective, "concomitant" means: Simultané ; qui accompagne ou qui se produit en même temps.
How do you pronounce "concomitant"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "concomitant" is \kɔ̃.kɔ.mi.tɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "concomitant", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list