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incoherency

noun

incoherency is spelled I-N-C-O-H-E-R-E-N-C-Y: 11 letters. It appears about once in every 74 million words in written English, the 272,462nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, incoherency means “The quality of being incoherent; lack of coherence” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of incoherency is incoherencies.

How many letters and syllables are in incoherency?

Letters11: I-N-C-O-H-E-R-E-N-C-Y
In writingabout once in every 74 million words; the 272,462nd 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 incoherency?

Incoherency appears about once in every 74 million words in written English, the 272,462nd 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).

Forms of incoherency

  • incoherencies plural

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

What does incoherency mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The quality of being incoherent; lack of coherence.

  2. 2

    A thing which is incoherent.

    For besides the unavoidable incoherencies, which must be reconciled and adjusted; one may safely affirm, that all popular theology, especially the scholastic, has a kind of appetite for absurdity and contradiction.

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

Where does incoherency come from?

From in- + coherency or incoherent + -cy.

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

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