concierge

1. 1.

   a French caretaker of apartments or a hotel; lives on the premises and oversees people entering and leaving and handles mail and acts as janitor or porter

   Broadercaretaker

Other forms of concierge

plural

concierges·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about concierge

What does concierge mean?

concierge means "a French caretaker of apartments or a hotel; lives on the premises and oversees people entering and leaving and handles mail and acts as janitor or porter".

How many syllables are in concierge?

concierge has 3 syllables: con-ci-erge. The stress falls on "erge". In IPA it is /ˌkɑnsiˈɛɹʒ/.

Is concierge a common word?

concierge is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.