coax

Other forms of coax

plural

coaxes·

past tense

coaxed·

present participle

coaxing·

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 coax

What does coax mean?

coax means "a transmission line for high-frequency signals". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in coax?

coax has 1 syllable: coax. In IPA it is /ˈkoʊks/.

What is another word for coax?

Close synonyms include coaxial cable, coax cable, wheedle, cajole, palaver. 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 coax a common word?

coax is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.