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incoherent

adjective

incoherent is spelled I-N-C-O-H-E-R-E-N-T: 10 letters and 4 syllables. It appears 1.2 times per million words in written English, the 25,751st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, incoherent means “Not making logical sense; not logically connected or consistent” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in incoherent?

Letters10: I-N-C-O-H-E-R-E-N-T
Syllables4 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing1.2 times per million words; the 25,751st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 incoherent?

Incoherent appears 1.2 times per million words in written English, the 25,751st 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 incoherent?

  • US

Incoherent has 4 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vininn126-incoherent.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of incoherent

  • more incoherent comparative
  • most incoherent superlative
  • incohærent

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

What does incoherent mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Not making logical sense; not logically connected or consistent.

    When we confronted her, she gave us a hasty, incoherent explanation.

  2. 2

    obsoleteNot holding together physically; loose; unconnected.

  3. 3

    Not cohering socially, not united.

noun

as Incoherent
  1. 1

    A member of a short-lived satirical and irreverent French art movement founded by Parisian writer and publisher Jules Lévy in 1882.

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

Incoherent in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchincohérent, décousu (lacking coherence, inconsistent)
Germaninkohärent, unzusammenhängend, unlogisch, unvereinbar (lacking coherence, inconsistent), lose, nicht verbunden (not physically coherent)
Portugueseincoerente (lacking coherence, inconsistent)
Spanishincoherente, inconexo, deshilvanado, descosido (lacking coherence, inconsistent)

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 incoherent come from?

From in- + coherent.

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

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