cohen
noun
cohen is spelled C-O-H-E-N: 5 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 9.5 times per million words in written English, the 7,338th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, cohen means “A Jewish priest: direct male descendant of the Biblical high priest Aaron, brother of Moses” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of cohen is cohens or cohanim.
How many letters and syllables are in cohen?
| Letters | 5: C-O-H-E-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 9.5 times per million words; the 7,338th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is cohen?
Cohen appears 9.5 times per million words in written English, the 7,338th 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 cohen?
Cohen has 2 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).
What rhymes with cohen?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as cohen.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: enoch, chone.
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 cohen
- cohens plural
- cohanim plural
- kohen
- kohein
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does cohen mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A Jewish priest: direct male descendant of the Biblical high priest Aaron, brother of Moses.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Cohen in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a descendant of Aaron:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | cohen |
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 cohen come from?
From Hebrew כוהן \ כֹּהֵן (kohén, “cohen”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).