coercion
/koʊˈɝʒən/noun
coercion is spelled C-O-E-R-C-I-O-N. The wrong spelling people search most is coersion: about 460 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Coercion is a noun meaning “Actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of coercing”. The plural of coercion is coercions or coërcions.
How many letters and syllables are in coercion?
| Letters | 8: C-O-E-R-C-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.9 times per million words; the 20,356th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, coersion, about 460 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell coercion?
Coercion is spelled C-O-E-R-C-I-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for coercion in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is coercion?
Coercion appears 1.9 times per million words in written English, the 20,356th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce coercion?
- UK /kəʊˈɜːʃən/
- US /koʊˈɝʒən/
- US /koʊˈɝʃən/
Coercion has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-coercion.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with coercion?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as coercion from its last stressed vowel (/ɜɹʒən/):
- version
- conversion
- Persian
- diversion
- immersion
- excursion
- aversion
- dispersion
- subversion
- perversion
- emersion
- retroversion
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of coercion
- coercions plural
- coërcions plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does coercion mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of coercing.
- 2
Use of physical or moral force to compel a person to do something, or to abstain from doing something, thereby depriving that person of the exercise of free will.
- 3
A specific instance of coercing.
- 4
Conversion of a value of one data type to a value of another data type.
- 5
The process by which the meaning of a word or other linguistic element is reinterpreted to match the grammatical context.
- 6
The initiation or threat of conflict; aggression.
noun
- 1
Dated spelling of coercion.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Coercion in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does coercion come from?
Inherited from Middle English cohercioun, from Old French cohercion, from Latin coërcitiō (“magisterial coercion”), from past participle coercitus of coërceō (“to restrain, coerce”), from co- (“with”) + arceō (“to shut in, enclose”); see coerce.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).