cohesion
/koʊˈhi.ʒən/noun
cohesion is spelled C-O-H-E-S-I-O-N: 8 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 1.9 times per million words in written English, the 20,101st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, cohesion means “State of cohering, or of working together” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of cohesion is cohesions.
How many letters and syllables are in cohesion?
| Letters | 8: C-O-H-E-S-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.9 times per million words; the 20,101st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is cohesion?
Cohesion appears 1.9 times per million words in written English, the 20,101st 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 cohesion?
- UK /kəʊˈhiː.ʒən/
- US /koʊˈhi.ʒən/
- Australia /kəʉˈhiː.ʒən/
Cohesion 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-cohesion.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with cohesion?
4 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as cohesion from its last stressed vowel (/iʒən/):
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 cohesion
- cohesions plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does cohesion mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
State of cohering, or of working together.
Unit cohesion is important in the military.
- 2
Various intermolecular forces that hold solids and liquids together.
- 3
Growing together of normally distinct parts of a plant.
- 4
Degree to which functionally related elements in a system belong together.
- 5
Grammatical or lexical relationship between different parts of the same text.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Cohesion in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the state of cohering, or of sticking together:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | cohésion |
| German | Zusammenhalt |
| Portuguese | coesão |
| Spanish | cohesión |
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 cohesion come from?
Attested from the late 17th century, borrowed from French cohésion, from Latin cohaesiō, cohaesiōnem.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).