coerce

Other forms of coerce

past tense

coerced·

present participle

coercing·

third person

coerces·

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 coerce

What does coerce mean?

coerce means "to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means".

How many syllables are in coerce?

coerce has 2 syllables: co-erce. The stress falls on "erce". In IPA it is /koʊˈɝs/.

What is another word for coerce?

Close synonyms include hale, squeeze, pressure, force. 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 coerce a common word?

coerce 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.