concrète

/\kɔ̃.kʁɛt\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#10,669

in French word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

9

similar word pairs

concrète is aFrenchnoun. It means: Matière grasse solide à température ambiante. Pronounced \kɔ̃.kʁɛt\. Often confused with contrée and conquête.

Key facts for concrète
PropertyValue
Headwordconcrète
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ̃.kʁɛt\
Letters8
Frequency rank#10,669
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for concrète is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.kʁɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #10,669 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Matière grasse solide à température ambiante.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for concrète, with forms such as "cconcrète", "cnocrète", and "cocnrète". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "contrée", "conquête", "concrets", 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 concrète, spelled C-O-N-C-R-È-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Matière grasse solide à température ambiante.

Synonyms

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: cconcrète,cnocrète,cocnrète,conccrète,concrete,concrrète,concrtèe,concrèet,concrètte,concèrte,conncrète,conrcète,ocncrète

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for concrète

Misspelling Variants of "concrète"

cconcrète9cnocrète8cocnrète8conccrète9concrete8concrrète9concrtèe8concrèet8
Misspelling Variants of "concrète"

Frequency rank: #10,669 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "concrète"?
"concrète" is spelled C-O-N-C-R-È-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃.kʁɛt\.
What does "concrète" mean?
As a noun, "concrète" means: Matière grasse solide à température ambiante.
What words are commonly confused with "concrète"?
"concrète" is commonly confused with "contrée", "conquête", "concrets". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "concrète"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "concrète" is \kɔ̃.kʁɛt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "concrète" come from?
"concrète" 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.