coalition

Other forms of coalition

plural

coalitions·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about coalition

What does coalition mean?

coalition means "an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in coalition?

coalition has 4 syllables: co-a-lit-ion. The stress falls on "lit". In IPA it is /ˌkoʊəˈlɪʃən/.

What is another word for coalition?

Close synonyms include alliance, alignment, alinement, fusion, coalescence. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is coalition a common word?

coalition is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with coalition?

3 words rhyme with coalition. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.