cohérence

/\kɔ.e.ʁɑ̃s\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#6,796

in French word usage

Misspellings

14

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

cohérence is aFrenchnoun. It means: Union complète entre divers éléments d’un corps. Pronounced \kɔ.e.ʁɑ̃s\. It ranks #6,796 in French word frequency. Often confused with cohérente and cohérents.

Key facts for cohérence
PropertyValue
Headwordcohérence
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ.e.ʁɑ̃s\
Letters9
Frequency rank#6,796
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of cohérence in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for cohérence is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.e.ʁɑ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,796 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for cohérence, with forms such as "ccohérence", "choérence", and "coherence". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "cohérente", "cohérents", "conférence", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is cohérence, spelled C-O-H-É-R-E-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Union complète entre divers éléments d’un corps.
  2. 2
    Accord ou harmonie, intuitive ou logique, d'un système d'idées entre elles.
  3. 3
    Consistance, absence de contradiction entre des données, des idées ou des informations.
  4. 4
    Ensemble des propriétés de corrélation d'un système ondulatoire.
  5. 5
    En logique mathématique, la cohérence ou consistance est la propriété d'une théorie exempte de contradiction, ou de façon équivalente, d'une théorie qui possède un modèle.
  6. 6
    Capacité pour un système à refléter sur la copie d'une donnée, les modifications intervenues sur d'autres copies de cette donnée.

Antonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ccohérence,choérence,coherence,cohhérence,cohréence,cohéernce,cohérecne,cohérencce,cohérenec,cohérennce,cohérnece,cohérrence,coéhrence,ochérence

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cohérence

Misspelling Variants of "cohérence"

ccohérence10choérence9coherence9cohhérence10cohréence9cohéernce9cohérecne9cohérencce10
Misspelling Variants of "cohérence"

Frequency rank: #6,796 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cohérence"?
"cohérence" is spelled C-O-H-É-R-E-N-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ.e.ʁɑ̃s\.
What does "cohérence" mean?
As a noun, "cohérence" means: Union complète entre divers éléments d’un corps.
What words are commonly confused with "cohérence"?
"cohérence" is commonly confused with "cohérente", "cohérents", "conférence". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "cohérence"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cohérence" is \kɔ.e.ʁɑ̃s\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cohérence" come from?
"cohérence" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.