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coprime

adjective

coprime is spelled C-O-P-R-I-M-E: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 59 million words in written English, the 240,237th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, coprime means “Having no positive integer factors in common, aside from 1” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in coprime?

Letters7: C-O-P-R-I-M-E
In writingabout once in every 59 million words; the 240,237th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is coprime?

Coprime appears about once in every 59 million words in written English, the 240,237th 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 coprime?

  • US

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-coprime.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of coprime

  • co-prime

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

What does coprime mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Having no positive integer factors in common, aside from 1.

    24 and 35 are coprime.

  2. 2

    Having no positive integer factors, aside from 1, in common with one or more specified other positive integers.

    24 is coprime to 35.

  3. 3

    Whose greatest common divisor is a nonzero constant (i.e., polynomial of degree 0).

  4. 4

    (of two or more ideals of a ring) Whose sum is the whole ring; (of two or more elements of a ring) generating the whole ring.

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

Coprime in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense (of two or more positive integers) having no factors in common:

LanguageWords
Frenchpremiers entre eux
Germanteilerfremd, relativ prim
Portuguesecoprimo

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 coprime come from?

From co- + prime.

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

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