cohost
"cohost" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cohost” is uncommon English (frequency #92,477 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,477
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A joint host alongside another (compare costar).
Corpus desk
Index EN-cohost · cohost · English
cohost · rank #92,477 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,477
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH collocation
Nearest frequency peer: collocation (+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 “cohost”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- cloverleaf
cloverleaf
7,531 corpus weight
- codependency
codependency
7,526 corpus weight
- cohost
cohost
7,524 corpus weight
- collocation
collocation
7,523 corpus weight
- colloquiali…
colloquialism
7,522 corpus weight
- commensal
commensal
7,520 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “cohost” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cohost |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #92,477 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cohost” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cohost is uncommon English at frequency #92,477 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A joint host alongside another (compare costar).".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cohost, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From co- + host. The correct English form is cohost, spelled C-O-H-O-S-T.
Definition
- 1A joint host alongside another (compare costar).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cohost appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A morning TV anchor in Oklahoma apologized a day after likening her black cohost to a gorilla.
It’s exactly what you’d expect from the cohosts of “Door, Bumper, Clear,” the weekly podcast featuring Griffin, Majors and Kraft, along with host Casey Boat and producer Jason Schultz, with the podcast produced by Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s Dirty Mo Media company. It’s this kind of candor that has made DBC so popular with an almost cultlike following.
Etymology
From co- + host.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).