coverage
/ˈkʌv.(ə.)ɹɪdʒ/noun
coverage is spelled C-O-V-E-R-A-G-E: 8 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 43 times per million words in written English, the 2,339th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, coverage means “An amount by which something or someone is covered” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of coverage is coverages.
How many letters and syllables are in coverage?
| Letters | 8: C-O-V-E-R-A-G-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 43 times per million words; the 2,339th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
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).
How common is coverage?
Coverage appears 43 times per million words in written English, the 2,339th 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 coverage?
- US /ˈkʌv.(ə.)ɹɪdʒ/
- Australia /ˈkɐv.(ə.)ɹɪdʒ/
- Australia /ˈkav.(ə.)ɹɪdʒ/
Coverage 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: En-us-nn-coverage.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of coverage
- coverages plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does coverage mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An amount by which something or someone is covered.
Don't go to lunch if we don't have enough coverage for the help-desk phones.
- 2
The amount and type of attention given to an event or topic in news media or other media.
- 3
The average number of reads representing a given nucleotide in the reconstructed sequence.
- 4
The area covered by a mobile phone (cellphone) or other radio network.
The primary coverage area of a station is that area throughout which the station can be received without objectionable interference from static, electrical interfering noises, or interference from other radio broadcasting stations, practica
- 5
The signal strength, reception of a radio signal.
Mobile phone coverage is poor in some areas.
- 6
Defense.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate coverage?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of coverage: cvg.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Coverage in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | couverture |
| German | Abdeckung , Berichterstattung |
| Portuguese | cobertura |
| Spanish | cobertura |
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.