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intercommunion

noun

intercommunion is spelled I-N-T-E-R-C-O-M-M-U-N-I-O-N: 14 letters. It appears about once in every 71 million words in written English, the 265,644th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, intercommunion means “communion (association) between people or groups” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of intercommunion is intercommunions.

How many letters and syllables are in intercommunion?

Letters14: I-N-T-E-R-C-O-M-M-U-N-I-O-N
In writingabout once in every 71 million words; the 265,644th 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 intercommunion?

Intercommunion appears about once in every 71 million words in written English, the 265,644th 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 intercommunion

  • intercommunions plural

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

What does intercommunion mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    communion (association) between people or groups

  2. 2

    The participation, together, in Holy Communion of people from different denominations

  3. 3

    In Roman Catholicism, the theological principle which governs whether it is permissible for a Roman Catholic to partake of the Eucharist in a non-Catholic service, and vice versa

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

Where does intercommunion come from?

From inter- + communion.

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

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