coherency
/kəʊˈhɪə.ɹən.si/
"coherency" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“coherency” is uncommon English (frequency #89,243 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,243
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The state of being coherent; a coherent relationship.
Corpus desk
Index EN-coherency · coherency · English
coherency · rank #89,243 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,243
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH cogito
Nearest frequency peer: cogito (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “coherency”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- circumcise
circumcise
10,767 corpus weight
- Cobbett
Cobbett
10,760 corpus weight
- cogito
cogito
10,759 corpus weight
- coherency
coherency
10,758 corpus weight
- combated
combated
10,755 corpus weight
- Comeau
Comeau
10,754 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “coherency” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coherency |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kəʊˈhɪə.ɹən.si/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #89,243 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “coherency” in English
Rare enough to double-check
coherency is uncommon English at frequency #89,243 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kəʊˈhɪə.ɹən.si/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The state of being coherent; a coherent relationship.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for coherency in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin cohaerēntia. The correct English form is coherency, spelled C-O-H-E-R-E-N-C-Y.
Definition
- 1The state of being coherent; a coherent relationship.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how coherency appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
even in all things therein created, there must be some image, somewhat resembling, and having coherencie with the workeman that wrought and framed them.
By ten o’clock the police organisation, and by midday even the railway organisations, were losing coherency, losing shape and efficiency, guttering, softening, running at last in that swift liquefaction of the social body.
Etymology
From Latin cohaerēntia.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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