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coordinate

co·or·di·nate/koʊˈɔɹ.də.nɪt/adjective, noun, verb

coordinate is spelled C-O-O-R-D-I-N-A-T-E: 10 letters and 4 syllables (co·or·di·nate). It appears 6.6 times per million words in written English, the 9,313th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “co-ordinate vs coordinate” about 30 times a month (Google, United States). As an adjective, coordinate means “Of the same rank; equal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in coordinate?

Letters10: C-O-O-R-D-I-N-A-T-E
Syllables4: co·or·di·nate
In writing6.6 times per million words; the 9,313th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 common is coordinate?

Coordinate appears 6.6 times per million words in written English, the 9,313th 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 coordinate?

  • UK /kəʊˈɔː.dɪ.nɪt/
  • UK /ˈkwɔː.dɪ.nɪt/
  • US /koʊˈɔɹ.də.nɪt/

As a verb (“To place in the same order or rank”): /kəʊˈɔː.dɪˌneɪt/, /ˈkwɔː.dɪnˌneɪt/, /koʊˈɔɹ.dəˌneɪt/.

Coordinate has 4 syllables, split co·or·di·nate in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-coordinate-noun.ogg, En-us-coordinate.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with coordinate

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

co-ordinate vs coordinate30 G

Also written: co-ordinate (one word or two).

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with coordinate?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as coordinate (/ɔɹdənɪt/).

Spelled with the same letters in another order: decoration, carotenoid.

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 coordinate

  • coördinate
  • co-ordinate
  • coordinates plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • coordinating participle, present
  • coordinated participle, past
  • coördinates present, singular, he/she/it, plural
  • coördinating participle, present
  • coördinated participle, past
  • more coördinate comparative
  • most coördinate superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does coordinate mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Of the same rank; equal.

    two coordinate terms

noun

  1. 1

    A number representing the position of a point along a line, arc, or similar one-dimensional figure.

    Give me your coordinates and we'll come and rescue you.

  2. 2

    Something that is equal to another thing.

  3. 3

    Coordinated clothes.

verb

  1. 1

    To place in the same order or rank.

  2. 2

    To synchronize (activities).

    It can be difficult to coordinate movement of both legs after an operation.

  3. 3

    To match (objects, especially clothes).

    The outfit you're wearing doesn't coordinate.

verb

as coördinate
  1. 1

    Dated spelling of coordinate.

noun

as coördinate
  1. 1

    rareRare spelling of coordinate.

adjective

as coördinate
  1. 1

    rareRare spelling of coordinate.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you abbreviate coordinate?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of coordinate: coord.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Coordinate in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchcoordonnée (mathematics, cartography: a number representing…), coordonner (to synchronize)
GermanKoordinate (mathematics, cartography: a number representing…), koordinieren, abstimmen (to synchronize)
Portuguesecoordenada (mathematics, cartography: a number representing…), coordenar (to synchronize)
Spanishcoordenada (mathematics, cartography: a number representing…), coordinar (to synchronize)

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 coordinate come from?

From Medieval Latin coōrdinātus, perfect passive participle of coōrdinō (“arrange together”), from co- + ōrdinō, equivalent to co- + ordinate. See -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more. See also ordain and ordinate.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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